PHP - Need Help Finding Paths On Free Host

First of all, does anyone know of some good documentation to better understand cookies?  I've gone through the PHP manual, and can find how to use PHP to work with cookies, but not how cookies really work.   In particular, it is my understanding that if the domain is .mydomain.com, then mydomain.com, www.mydomain.com, or whatEver.mydomain.com, cookies could be set for each, and available for each, right?   If path was /, cookies will be sent for mydomain.com, mydomain.com/bla, and mydomain.com/bla/bla. If path was /bla, cookies will be not be sent for mydomain.com, but will be sent for mydomain.com and mydomain.com/bla/bla.   Also, what would be the impact if Apache rewrote bla.mydomain.com to mydomain.com/bla?   Please feel free to provide any other insight on this topic.   Thank you

I have a form that lets a user upload an image, aswell as another file. I want the image to go into the images directory, and the pdf file to go into the PDF directory once uploaded. The names of the files will then be uploaded to the database.

At the moment I can get the image to upload to the database and directory, but the PDF is only uploading the name to the database, it is not going into the PDF directory aswell. I'm not sure if there is a way you can do this, I am trying to use "move_uploaded_file()" to physically move the files but not sure if you can use it twice.

here is my code, if you can point anything out or where im going wrong that would be great.
<?php

include "include/conn.php";

include "include/session.php";
?>

<?php


// Check to see if the type of file uploaded is a valid image type
function is_valid_type($file)
{
       
        $valid_types = array("image/jpg", "image/jpeg", "image/bmp", "image/gif");

        if (in_array($file['type'], $valid_types))
                return 1;
        return 0;
}




function showContents($array)
{
        echo "<pre>";
        print_r($array);
        echo "</pre>";
}

//Target path for image
$TARGET_PATH = dirname(__FILE__) . "/images/";

//Target path for PDF files
$PDF_TARGET_PATH = dirname(_FILE_) . "/PDF/";

// Get POST variables

$image = $_FILES['image'];

$pdf = $_FILES['pdf'];

$date= date("Y-m-d ");
$time = date("H:i:s");

$title = $_POST['title'];
$title_escape = mysql_escape_string($title);
$title_slashes = stripslashes($title_escape);

$content = $_POST['content'];

$image['name'] = mysql_real_escape_string($image['name']);

$pdf['name'] = mysql_real_escape_string($pdf['name']);


//image path
$TARGET_PATH .= $image['name'];

//PDF path
$PDF_TARGET_PATH .= $pdf['file_name'];

// Make sure all the fields from the form have inputs
if ($image['name'] == "" )
{
        $_SESSION['error'] = "All fields are required";
        header("Location: add_media.php");
        exit;
}

// Verify file is an image
if (!is_valid_type($image))
{
        $_SESSION['error'] = "You must upload a jpeg, gif, or bmp";
        header("Location: add_media.php");
        exit;
}



// move file into the directory and the path name into the database / along with the rest of the form fields
if (move_uploaded_file($image['tmp_name'], $TARGET_PATH))
{
        if(move_uploaded_file($pdf['tmp_name'], $PDF_TARGET_PATH))
{
$sql = "INSERT INTO media_table(title, text, time, date, image, PDF) VALUES ('" . $title_slashes . "','" . $content . "', '" . $time . "', '" . $date . "', '" . $image['name'] . "', '" . $pdf['name'] . "')";
        $result = mysql_query($sql) or die (mysql_error());
        header("Location: add_media.php");
        exit;
}
else
{
print "did not upload";
}
}
else
{
        
        $_SESSION['error'] = "Could not upload file.  Check read/write persmissions on the directory";
     
        exit;
}
?>

I have a directory in public WWW. The files throughout the directory have many PHP includes amongst themselves. For example, the file "registration.php" begins with require('../parameters.php');

The directory is complex, like this:

/Public WWW directory/
        /My_Directory
            parameters.php
            another_reg.php
                /app
                    files.inc
                     files2.inc
                    /morefiles
                    another.inc
                    another2.inc
                    /css
                mycss.css
                /pages
                config.php
                registration.php
            
My question: I want the entire directory moved out of reach above the public WWW, but I want "registration.php" to go into the public WWW.

How would I do that without breaking all the include paths? (I know the solution is probably a one-liner involving __DIR__  ... but I can't seem to code it so it works).

Thank you!!

 

Hi all,

How do I get the following paths from the array separately in a foreach loop?
level.dat
level.dat_old
session.lock
uid.data

If I use

Code: [Select]

foreach($outer_dir as $key=>$val)
[code]

then I get a warning because its returning the folder as 'Array'. The files still upload, as well as a single file called Array.

Can i just strip these from the foreach?

[code]
Array ( [data] => Array ( ) [level.dat] => level.dat [level.dat_old] => level.dat_old [players] => Array ( [herghost.dat] => herghost.dat ) [region] => Array ( [r.-1.0.mcr] => r.-1.0.mcr [r.0.0.mcr] => r.0.0.mcr ) [session.lock] => session.lock [uid.dat] => uid.dat ) herghost.dat

Many thanks from a confused user

my directory on my mamp server looks like this;

root/website/index.php

I also have some files in a folder like this

root/website/pages/files.php

My include code is this
include("functions.php");

When I try to include a file from the 'website' folder from a page in the 'pages' folder. It gives me errors that look like this.

Warning: include(functions.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /website/pages/contact.php on line 2

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'functions.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/lib/php') in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/website/pages/contact.php on line 2



That's what it looks like.. I can't get it working.

Hi guys,

Just a quick one - this is more of a bit of a challenge than a problem!

I'm pretty good with PHP - I'm definitely not a beginner, but I've come across a problem I've not yet been able to solve satisfactorily.

Essentially, I am trying to write a really good, solid OOP library that I can hand out for people to use for CMS-driven websites, and I want to literally just upload some files and have access to some variables... simple enough.

But, my snagging point came when I was writing the image library, which handles uploading files and moving them from place to place. These functions as you know usually require an absolute server path - not a relative path and certainly not a URL, so I wanted to place something in my config file that gets the base URL, puts the relative path in one variable (e.g. mysite.com/directory would give /directory) and the server path in another (e.g. mysite.com/directory might give var/www/mysite/www/directory).

Now I might just be being foolish and overlooking something, but I've used HTTP_HOST, DOCUMENT_ROOT etc to get this information, but I only want to get the base directory that the application resides in - usually with installed software sure as WordPress you have to specify which directory the files are going to sit in, which I wondered if you could gauge automatically?

Any help would be appreciated - I've tried as many clever approaches as I could think of, and the only one I can think of now is setting the variables based on, say, installtion.php since I know the name of the file and where it resides, I can strip out all folders minus the filename, which would give me the root directory, but that seems a little fiddly to me?

Someone must have done this before and have a nice clean solution to the problem? I'm at a loss anyway, and I figured it might be a fair challenge to do?

Thanks,
Luke

I am in the process of writing a CMS for a friend that is looking to add a classified section to his site. He will be the only one that will ever use it.

I got the code to work with one image when he asked me if I could do it so he could post 6 images for each item. I am unable to figure out how to do this. I was told to do this with a while loop.

This is the code that I have written so far.

<?php

//Check to make sure title is filled in. If not redirects to show_add.php
if (!$_POST[title]) {
header("Location: show_add.php");
exit;
} else {
//check and see if a session has started
session_start();
}
//if session has not been properly started redirects back to the administration menu
if ($_SESSION[valid] != "yes") {
header("Location: admin_menu.php");
exit;
}

include('includes/connection.php');


//check and see if the type of uploaded file is an image
function is_valid_type($file) {
$valid_types = array("image/jpg", "image/jpeg", "image/gif", "image/bmp");

if (in_array($file['type'], $valid_types))
return 1;
return 0;
}

//Set Constants
$TARGET_PATH = "/home/content/m/i/k/mikedmartiny/html/db_images/";

$title = $_POST['title'];
$year = $_POST['year'];
$make = $_POST['make'];
$model = $_POST['model'];
$descript = $_POST['descript'];
$image = $_FILES['image'];

//Sanitize the inputs
$title = mysql_real_escape_string($title);
$year = mysql_real_escape_string($year);
$make = mysql_real_escape_string($make);
$model = mysql_real_escape_string($model);
$descript = mysql_real_escape_string($descript);
$image['name'] = mysql_real_escape_string($image['name']);

//$target_path full string
$TARGET_PATH .= $image['name'];

//make sure that all fields from form are filled in
if ( $title == "" || $year == "" || $make =="" || $model == "" || $descript == "" || $image['name'] == "") {
$_SESSION['error']  = "ALL FIELDS ARE REQUIRED!";
header ("Location: show_add.php");
exit;
}

//check to make sure it has the right file type
if (!is_valid_type($image)){
$_SESSION['error'] = "You must upload a jpeg, gif, or bmp";
header ("Location: show_add.php");
exit;
}

//check to see if a file with that name exsists
if (file_exists($TARGET_PATH)){
$_SESSION['error'] = "A FILE WITH THAT NAME ALL READY EXIST!";
header ("Location: show_add.php");
exit;
}

//move the image - write path to database
while($image <=2) {
move_uploaded_file($image['tmp_name'], $TARGET_PATH)
} else {
// Make sure you chmod the directory to be writeable
$_SESSION['error'] = "COULD NOT UPLOAD FILE. CHECK WRITE/REWRITE PERMISSIONS ON THE FILE DIRECTORY!";
header ("Location: show_add.php");
exit;
}

$sql = "INSERT INTO $table (id, title, year, make, model, descript, image, image_two) VALUES ('', '$_POST[title]', '$_POST[year]', '$_POST[make]', '$_POST[model]', '$_POST[descript]', '" . $image['name'] . "', '" . $image['name'] . "')";

$result = mysql_query($sql) or die ("Could not insert data into DB: " . mysql_error());

?>


I only have it set up to work with 2 images right now. I thought it would be easier to get it to work properly. Then I could just add in the rest of the info later.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I was under the impression this was a simple thing to do and I'm fairly certain I've done it before, but it isn't working for some reason.

Under the root directory of my project I have two subfolders called "inc" and "lib". lib contains third-party scripts for use in my project. The one in question is phpmailer (lib/class.phpmailer.php). Now, in inc I have a file that needs to include PHPMailer.

Inside my script in inc I have this:
require_once('../lib/class.phpmailer.php');

It errors out saying it can't find it. I thought that was supposed to go down one directory then back up into lib. The file does indeed exist.

What am I doing wrong? This seems like a stupidly simple thing...

well good moring dear folks - hope you are all right and everythings is fine across the atlantic

today i have a  question regarding server-paths - and the absolute and relative in a linux-[opensuse 11.4] lampp-system
well i just installed something in to my Lampp on openSuse  11.4

while setting up  this application - (it is a joomla 1.7.3 ) i wonder how i name the paths


   public $unicodeslugs = '0';
   public $feed_limit = '10';
   public $log_path = 'D:\\Xammp\\xampp\\htdocs\\pre1/logs';
   public $tmp_path = 'D:\\Xammp\\xampp\\htdocs\\pre1/tmp';
   public $lifetime = '15';
   public $session_handler = 'database';



what cou you thinks how shoud i name the paths
well you see above this was a windows box where the pahts originally were taken from

love to hear from you

I am creating a news updates thing for my website and i have managed to get it working on my home PC (im using XAMPP) but when i upload to my webhost it doesnt appear to work.
I am wondering if it is just my host or whether i have done something wrong and by chance it works on my home PC.

Here is my code:
<?php
include("includes.php");

doConnect();

$get_news = "SELECT title, text, DATE_FORMAT(datetime, '%e %b %Y at %T') AS datetime FROM newsfeed ORDER BY datetime DESC";

$result= mysqli_query($mysqli, $get_news)
or die(mysqli_error($mysqli));

while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
echo '<strong>'. $row['title'] .' </strong><br>'. $row['text'] .'<br>'. $row['datetime'] .'<br><br>';}


?>

My includes file is:
<?php

function doConnect() {
global $mysqli;

//connect to server and select database
$mysqli = mysqli_connect("localhost", "user", "password", "dbname");

//if connection fails, stop script execution
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connection failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
exit();
}
}
?>

I think im right in saying it connects properly because i do not see an error.

what i get is:
Code: [Select]
'. $row['title'] .'
'. $row['text'] .'
'. $row['datetime'] .'

';} ?>
Im new to PHP (incase you hadnt guessed!) so not really sure whats happening.
On my home PC i have PHP Version 5.3.1 and on my webhost its 5.2.14. Home PC mySQL version 5.1.41 and on webhost its 5.0.91-community. Could this be the reason?

Thanks

I currently have a list of host addresses. I need to get the mx records for them.

I was looking at the documentation, and found the getmxrr(). Would that send back the mx record, or just true if it has one?

Hi, I just realised that date() function depends on where ever your hosting company is from. Is there any way to change this manually as I am from UK and the day changes early compared to where my hosting company is (USA).

The reason I want to know this because I have some functions where the user should only be allowed to choose the current date which I want to be according to GMT time.

Any help is much appreciated thanks in advance!

Hi all,
I have a small script I found somewhere but after I changed hosting, it just stop to work. I just want to record the user IP and Referrer etc. in a .txt file using fopen.
It helps to see what users searched for in search engine etc.
The headers are there but no data... Please help??

session_start();
if($session["logged"] != "yes")
{
$agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$uri = $_SERVER['REUEST_URI'];
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$visitTime = date("r");
$logLine = "$visitTime - IP: $ip || User Agent: $agent || Page: $uri || Refererrer: $ref\n\n";
$fp = fopen("indexLog.txt", "a");
fputs($fp, $logLine);
fclose($fp);
$_SESSION["logged"] = "yes";
}
?>

Thanx in advance
Jaco

Hey.. hoping someone can help me on a this issue I have been having for 4 days now.

My host has tried to figure out what is causing it and has told me they are finding it very strange, everytime my website is up on their server it will take 600%-800% CPU so they must take it down for fair usage on other customers of course. They said they can easily track and trace websites that are overloading the resources but mine seems too complicated to understand as it is having legitmate traffic (on average 30 users online and 300 visits daily) which would never be the cause of CPU spikes to 600%-800%. They either believe it is a "clever attack" or some PHP script perhaps looping like mad.

Anyone help me and my host figure out the problem as we obviously both don't like the website to continue to be offline. The website has very standard content CMS running and clean database it makes no sense to the both of us.

Like to mention the last activity I had done on the website was when I tried to insert into database:-

Code: [Select]
Query failed:
errorno=126
error=Incorrect key file for table './teamxcom_webspell/ws_bi2_cup_matches.MYI'; try to repair it
query=DELETE FROM ws_bi2_cup_matches WHERE matchno='5' && type='gs' && ladID='0' && 1on1='1'

Then after I tried to perform query from database:

Code: [Select]
Error
SQL query:

SELECT *
FROM `ws_bi2_cup_matches`
ORDER BY `ws_bi2_cup_matches`.`matchID` DESC
LIMIT 0 , 30

MySQL said:

#1030 - Got error 134 from storage engine

Then found out the table on phpmyadmin had wrong page numbers in sequence:-

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 379, 746, 1113, --, --, --7349

After I contacted web host they mentioned it is causinga massive problem and took it down after that.
Anyone can shed some light on this please? Sorry if it is posted in wrong section!

Thanks very much

I changed web hosting companies and now a php form that was working is no longer working. I haven't been able to figure out what the problem is. The form is a simple text input form that adds the text to a database. Every time the user inserts text with a comma, an error occurs. Below is the code for the form. Any help is much appreciated.