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I just wanted to give you guys a tip for when you all go over to SSL. Even though your site use a secure connection, you need to use

session_set_cookie_params();

before calling

session_start();

otherwise your session cookies will be sent in the clear.

Are there any disadvantages of not defining the width and height of an image withing an <img> tag apart from making the browser waste cycles working out how big the image should be? I am using CSS to set a maximum width and height, within a custom <div> tag. I am doing this in order to make the site...

Hi,

Are you planning to do a two-factor authentication tutorial? This would, I think, be a really good thing. I suggest using SMS to send the user a 5 digit code and log-in with that.

Will

I don't, I just wanted to see what it would output, The point of going for 0 was to demonstrate my point (that you could put in any number and it'd return a string of a different length). I got a string length of 26 when I passed '10' to the function, 13 gave 23. I'm guessing there is just something...

I am trying to build an API for the MovieStop website, and I'm using a random string generator to produce an API key, I notice that, when I tell it what length I want, it spits out a different length key. My code is as follows: <?php function randomstring($length) /* This forms a string of a random ...

still haven't decided whether I should sell it or just give it away for free (but with limited accounts if free..). It would be less of a hassle. I'd be in favor of offering free accounts and, for more money, paid accounts. Charging for access is nice but, as there are free services available that ...

I have been working on my new project over the past few weeks. It is supposed to be an IMDb type movie search engine. Check it out at http://www.moviestop.org.uk. If it doesn't work right, let me know and I'm sure I will get round to fixing it at some point.

It really amuses me how the YouTube bot picks out some videos and not others. i think you might be able to claim fair use on the video as its a tutorial

I have pretty much finished working on Twisted Media, so I thought I'd ask the forum what my next project should be? I would create my own blog or forum, but there seems little point seeing as how we have phpBB and Wordpress.

Line 14 was this line

        $topicid        = (int)$listresult['topicid'];

but I have changed it so now the value is assigned to a variable which is passed to the other function (so now not using the array as input)

Hi, I just wondered if you can help me. I have a function which returns an array <?php function topicname() { $querylist = mysql_query("SELECT `topicid`,`topicname` FROM `topiclist`"); $topiclist = array(); while ($listresult = mysql_fetch_assoc($querylist)) { $topiclist[] = $listresult; }...

I know this is really off topic but hey this is why I post in the general section. What are peoples' thoughts on the new series of Doctor Who. Which is your favourite Doctor? I can't decide but wasn't a fan of Sylvester McCoy, William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton or Jon Pertwee

The issue surrounding the SQL table being dumped is virtually non-existent because although the bad guys have the user portion of the salt, they do not have the static key or a knowledge of how many times your password was hashed. They would only be able to retrieve the static part of your salt, as ...

This function will salt a password and stretch it by 5120 rounds of encryption <?php function passcrypt($username, $password) { $coresalt = "XtyuNfG8AaX7CrerGaAaeEacCmQkRygdFvPu34"; /* or whatever random string you like to form the basis of the salt*/ $usersalt = md5($username); /* hashes ...

Hi, I am using the following CSS to produce a horizontal menu for the new system I'm working on. The code look like this nav { border: #000000 thin solid; color: #FFFFFF; width: 100%; background: #000056; } nav ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; } nav ul li { float: left; } nav ul li a { display: block; te...

Hi,

I'm not much good at command line, so I need GUI stuff. Does anyone know any open source LDAP servers which have a graphical frontend?

WIll

Hmm... it seems OK however, for each question you're giving users a choice, I would put each choice in an array and check against that because someone could easily view the forms' source, inject their own string, and submit the form. If you put all possible allowable answers in an array, this cannot...

Hey. I am attempting to conbine database searching with pagination but am having problems. The function I have writen looks like this function searchDB($condition, $value, $page, $per_page) { $condition = htmlentities(trim(mysql_real_escape_string($condition))); $value = htmlentities(trim(mysql_real...

You should probably have the users' ID, from the database, in the session and then the username. Then you can check to see whether the user ID and the username match.

I know we're nearing the end of extended support for Windows XP (I declare 08/04/2014 a day of mourning, although I hope Microsoft will extend its life) but I will be downgrading to Windows XP. This is because the Metro interface.
P. S. I will also be installing Ubuntu

Yeah