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PHP Upgrade, Painstakingly

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I upgraded PHP from version 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 last week, and boy did it take elbow grease. I had to fart around in the login settings on my computer, since I installed PHP under a different account that was no longer available on the Welcome Screen. I hate Windows. For some reason, I could only see my PHP installation from the account it was installed under. I had to log in two accounts and make sure my install settings were the same. That was weird, but at least it didn’t break. Now I have two PHP INSTALLER EDITS – REMOVE…

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Sessions, too?!

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Man, the IT department at Augsburg College really doesn’t want anything to happen on their servers. You can see in previous postings the functions they have disabled, but I just tried storing data in a PHP session, and unless I set the variable within the current program file the session had no permanence. They must have set session.gc_maxlifetime to ‘0’ and session.gc_probability to ‘100’, meaning sessions can’t be saved. Either that, or they compiled PHP without sessions (using the –disable-session option). Harrumph. I really need to find a host that didn’t cripple PHP when they installed it.

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More Blocked/Unavailable PHP Functions

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I just tried to use the crypt() function in PHP to secure some passwords for my website, with no luck. For some reason, that function is unavailable. Plus I can’t use .htaccess files to control directories, or use PHP to modify/upload files. My current host is really restricitve. I wonder if, even after getting the PEAR DB module (which has been superseded by some other module I don’t remember the name of), I’d be able to connect to a database on, say, my dad’s server, or a friend’s. Considering the security at my server’s location, probably not.

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Rock the Script (Don’t Rock the Script Baby)

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While I’ve never fancied myself a particularly good programmer, I must admit I feel I’ve outdone myself with the (almost complete) new version of a website I maintain. I’ve reprogrammed the entire thing in PHP, cutting down file storage needs on the server as header information is included dynamically from separate files when the pages load. It’s a new kind of template system that requires only a simple snippet of code in the actual page. And the page titles are automated, too, with a variable being passed to the header (where the title tags are) on each load.But the best…

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PHP: PHP Hypertext Power

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I’ve spent the last two days learning a smattering of PHP in my spare time. I’m trying to create a more secure login system for my website, and PHP seemed like the way to go. Since it is (nearly?) impossible for visitors to view the source of a PHP script in a browser, it’s much more secure than the client-side solution I use now. Just use a PHP array to store the data and loop through it searching for POSTed input. It’s now functioning as a lookup tool for names in the login database (all I’ve gotten to so far…

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