I agree with bgraybr, Megan Fox is gorgeous.

Also, just because she's thin, it doesn't mean she has had expensive work done or anything... Some girls are just naturally very thin. Of course, a lot in Hollywood have had work done to further their careers, and I agree, that is silly and shouldn't be respected, but just because a girl is thin it doesn't mean she had spent a lot on "cosmetics".

file_get_contents: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.fil e-get-contents.php

Take a look at Godaddy virtual dedicated servers. I think they're great. I've had my VDS plan through them for about five years now, and I've never had a problem.

Heh, this discussion reminds me of a really funny story.

One of my friends, who is in to scheming, once made this pyramid site. He was selling all this stuff like PS2's, flat screen TVs, etc, for like $25 a pop. He put your name on a list, and when you got to the top of the list, he would send the item. SOMEHOW, people actually went for this. I told him it was illegal and there's no way it can possibly work, and eventually he would get in trouble. And eventually, he did. But it brings back memories :)

This looks/sounds really cool. Makes me wish I had an iPhone. But I like Sprint.

Maybe down the road think about bringing it to the Windows Mobile platform. Then I would buy it.

I like it, but since I've become a photography enthusiast, I'm going to be harsh.

First off, you have way too many forums and not enough of the important ones. When I go to the froum I get a headache because there's so many.

You have a Nikon and Canon forum. OK, but they should be split up somehow by P&S and DSLRs.

That's just a few things off the bat, and also, you should have some things to differentiate yourself.

At 7/13/09 01:21 AM, Blackfang wrote: I'm gonna leave the Lounge for a bit and find other things to do. Luis made me feel bad. Bye reg lounge, see you soon.

I swear one night a few years ago Luis drunk IMed me it was hilarious and I'll never forget it. I haven't been on this forum in months but you made me remember it. Just reading through some of these pages brings back soooo many memories :)

At 5/16/09 11:13 PM, DanielZ wrote: Speaking of high-school dropouts, look at smulse. Didn't he drop out? Last time I checked, he's doing pretty well. However, I'm not planning on failing out of high school. My grades so far have been pretty good, with mostly B's and a few A's. I'm running a B+ average, with an 1890 on the SAT.

So what's the issue here? You're doing fine in high school and with that SAT score you can get into a ton of good colleges...

But I'm sorry, it's 2009 and pretty much everyone graduates from high school. Even people who have ZERO need for most of high school graduate from high school. I mean highly skilled baseball players who are going to make millions of dollars anyway, they all graduate from high school.

My apologies, I'm in a rush and I typed that post incredibly fast and it's filled with embarrassing mistakes, but I hope I still got my point across.

Wait, are we walking about finishing high school, or college? There's a huge difference. If we're talking about High School, then I agree with Jess.

I don't care what you're skills are, if you can't finish high school, changes are you can't use your skills properly. I can't think of anyone successful I know who didn't finish high school, and that's because I don't KNOW anyone who didn't finish high school. At this point, at least in the United States, it takes much more effort not to graduate high school than to actually graduate.

Now, if we're talking about a college education, then I agree for the most part with diuqscirtic. A college education is great, most people should get one. But it is by no stretch of the imagination a requirement to be successful. One of the most successful and wealthiest people I know is also one of the few I know who only has a high school diploma. I also know people who graduated college, and from good colleges, who aren't successful... But, these people are the exceptions. In reality, graduating from college can't hurt.

But for people who go through college like "must have 4.0 GPA", I just find that sad. Graduating is graduating. I always look at it like this: you go for a job interview, and you're competing against someone who graduated college with a 4.0 GPA, but you have a much better skillset. Of course they are going to pick you. Any company that knows what they are doing knows how to spot talent and not just look at a meaningless number.

Preventing "JavaScript" injections has nothing to do with removing javascript:. Just worry about turning brackets into entities (htmlentities()), that way a JavaScript tag can never be interpreted...

At 5/6/09 06:55 AM, CronoMan wrote: Nice support for input devices though

WIN.

At 5/6/09 05:32 PM, Super-Yombario wrote: Since when does Date = Time?

date(m.'/'.d.'/'.Y);

...would be a suitable date function

That's not even close to how you would actually use it. You aught to actually look at the documentation. Also, if you don't know how to properly utilize a function after looking at documentation, time to re-learn the basics because you don't know them well enough to go on yet.

At 5/4/09 02:47 PM, elbekko wrote: Actually:
http://www.h-online.com/security/Risky-M IME-sniffing-in-Internet-Explorer--/feat ures/112589

OK, so I guess you want to check the integrity of image files also, although I'm not sure the easiest way to do that. Do you know of any classes for this?

At 5/4/09 10:49 AM, CronoMan wrote: Extract the 4 last characters of the filename.

But why? What if the extension is 1 character? 2 characters? 3 characters? 4 characters? Then you have a messed up script. So no, that logic wouldn't work. Rather, like other people have suggested in this thread, you would use explode() to get the last part, which has to be the extension, and it doesn't matter how many characters long it is.

So instead of yelling at PHP, learn how to write working, adaptable algorithms first because from this example it doesn't really seem like PHP is the problem.

I personally don't think it's such a bad idea to assume that a file is a zip-file, if it ends with the string ".zip" - I mean, that's what extensions are for, right?

No, it isn't. When you're working with files like exe's, zips, etc, that can actually contain executable/dangerous code, I think you want to know if the file is what the extension says it is. When you're working with jpg's, gifs, pngs, etc, it doesn't really matter if the file integrity isn't there. What's the worst that can happen? An invalid image error?

At 5/4/09 06:04 AM, CronoMan wrote: if(stricmp(substr($filename, strlen($filename) - 4)), ".zip") == 0)
....

Why make it more complex than it has to

Because you might as well use syntax that works and a function that actually exists...

At 4/29/09 12:11 PM, Kartoffels wrote: I tried using PDO, but -again- my host did not seem to accept that (while I tested it on a localhost first), so that leaves me with creating an entire new database class and integrate that within the system; so that is taking some time.

What's wrong with mysqli?

At 5/2/09 10:04 PM, WoogieNoogie wrote: It would be pretty difficult to determine if it was a zip file before it was uploaded with that method.

Odds are any time you check ANYTHING about a file, it's already "uploaded". Any time the form posts to the page on your server, the file being uploaded is stored in the temp directory. So, any time you use the $_files array, the file is already "uploaded". Since it's on your server already, you might as well check the contents.

At 5/2/09 05:03 AM, WoogieNoogie wrote:

At 5/2/09 02:50 AM, Nano256 wrote: http://us3.php.net/zip

Wow, what a useless post.

Actually, that was the most useful post so far. If you just use the open method of that class, it'll tell you if it's a zip file for sure...

At 4/30/09 05:31 PM, Kartoffels wrote: Great to hear. :)
What has been keeping you busy lately? Still busy with Orange Fox Games?
And today I was unable working on the application, but I'll try to get everything done in time as soon as possible. :)

Nah, I don't really do many games these days. I've been working on some other projects, none of which I've released yet :\ But I've been most busy with school, so hopefully I'll be able to finish my projects during the summer!

At 4/30/09 10:03 PM, thoughtpolice wrote: It's been a very tiring semester. My mother died very early april, and now things are starting to grind as finals come up. :( I just want to get it over with.

That's terrible :( Hope you're getting along relatively OK.

At 4/29/09 06:01 PM, Kartoffels wrote:

At 4/29/09 05:58 PM, Kartoffels wrote:

At 4/29/09 05:53 PM, DFox wrote: You'll always be Zendra to me :)

Haha, I could have figured. How has life been doing for you? :)

Ghh, forgot to include GamesCool... :\

Haha, I've been good. I don't really have too much time to come around here anymore but I usually try a few times a a month. Glad everything's good with you! The member system you're working on looks great. Keep it up!

At 4/28/09 06:27 PM, Kartoffels wrote: Hello everyone. It has certainly been a while since I last posted in here. In the time I wasn't here NG certainly made some nice changes and improvement.
How are things in the Programming forum these days? :)

You'll always be Zendra to me :)

At 4/28/09 12:12 PM, Jon-86 wrote: A meant as in if the function needs to do a lot of processing. If the function is only ever gonna be passed small data sets then I would make the code clearer to read, if not it would be heavily commented. This just makes maintaining it less tedious for people down the line.

Good point, but you just need to always remember PHP is parsed to begin with so making it do any significant extra work could really damage the efficiency.

At 4/28/09 11:38 AM, Jon-86 wrote: Unless efficiency is an issue

Efficiency should ALWAYS be an issue unless you're doing something solely for educational purposes.

One of the most common things I've seen on the NG programming forum is the lack of use of Google when applying searches to more complex issues. I'm not picking on you. It's the common thing on this forum. Someone asks a basic question about PHP, it's automatically "OMG, use Google". If it's more complex, people usually don't even bother suggesting a search engine.

But, the truth of the matter is, for people like you, who already know PHP, Google is much more valuable than for people who don't know anything about the language. So what I'm saying is, even if your issue seems complex, try to search it, because the overwhelming odds are someone else has had that same issue.

Anyway, a simple search led me to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13357 1/how-to-convert-multiple-br-tag-to-a-si ngle-br-tag-in-php

There's probably 10 solutions on that page.

At 4/28/09 03:45 AM, yhar wrote:

At 4/27/09 09:13 PM, Gateau wrote: I know that if I use GET it would be harder for exploiters to trick the system

You've got that backwards, GET is much less insecure than POST.

There both equally "insecure" because you would never use either for something that couldn't be modified by the user.

If notice is a string then his problems begin with poor database structuring...

But, if it's a number like his query suggests, then yes, a_field != $a_NUMBER_variable is perfectly valid.

At 4/28/09 12:38 AM, Thomas wrote: $q = mysql_query("UPDATE `alerts` SET notice = $notice WHERE notice != $currentNotice")
or die(mysql_error());

Well it's already obvious, you can't do 'WHERE obj != $var'.

You can't?

At 4/27/09 07:57 PM, Super-Yombario wrote: I asked a friend and figured it out. Tutorials don't explain this stuff well enough for me I guess : /

Then go to your local book store, and buy a book. That's how I learned at first.

At 4/27/09 03:21 PM, Super-Yombario wrote: And I have yet to learn this. I can't find any good tutorials on it either. So I come here, and am redirected back to google?

After a few minutes searching, I found this: http://www.phpfever.com/mysqli-tutorial.
html

That's exactly what you want. It'll show you how to select data using mysqli extension. You could easily be lazy and just copy and paste his code or you could learn it. I highly suggest learning it.