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How do I use md5? Do I need special software or php scripting for it? I don't know squat about databases, and I don't think it's necessary to store one password and a paragraph worth of news to put on a web page.
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Jen replied to karthikeyan_coder's topic in PHP Coding Help
Put this inside your <head> tags, too: <link href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" rel="icon"> (I just copied that from someone else, so I don't know if it's 100% right.) -
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Jen replied to karthikeyan_coder's topic in PHP Coding Help
Do you mean the small icon in the address bar? I think you just save the image file as favicon.ico in your root directory, such as this: http://www.google.com/favicon.ico -
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I have more questions. How do I manage to encrypt my password files? Can this be done with a php command while writing to a file? I encryption still necessary if the password file is stored outsid the www file? The file heirarchy looks like this: [code] apdwbux04/www/customer/www.---.com/htdocs/index.html [/code] (where --- is the web url for the site) Should I put the password in the apdwbux04 file then? I'm having trouble getting to that file with my ftp client. When I click to view it, I cannot see the contents, even though I know there should be at least a www folder in there. Should I be able to view the contents of this folder with my ftp client? Should I just use a php script to create the files rather than trying to ftp them to that folder? Is this something I should be contacting the web host about? Sorry for asking so many questions.
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Ok, Sharkbait, that explains a lot, thanks! I'm very new to this stuff; never done anything outside of simple html and css before, so I'm just getting my feet wet right now. Will I have better luck accessing my files if they were stored "lower in the heirarchy," as you say? Or would I still have my problem with denied access?
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Your reply confuses me. I'm not using Unix, and the server I speak of is a web server, and I don't think they use Unix either. I've been trying to set up a little news box on a website, with the ability for the site's owner to use a form to change the news contents. I have two problems: firstly, anyone could find the password file on the server and view (and probably change) its contents; secondly, my script doesn't have the access permissions to write to the file containing news data. Here is my original post concerning this project: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,103311.0.html
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What is man chown? I'm actually trying to change some file access permissions on a server. I have a file containing password data that needs to be inaccessible to the general public (and currently is accessible), and I have a file containing other data that needs to be written to periodically by my php script (which I currently can't do because of denied access).
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Can someone explain what it means to "own" a file, and what's the default for a server? Can files own files, or users, or what? How do I use chown? The tutorial on this site did not help much.
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Is there a way to find out who the owner is, or what the current file permission settings are for a particular file? If I use chown, what exactly becomes the owner? Is it the file that runs the script with chown("filename", "root")? And what is the value of "root"? I'm looking at Tayfun's post: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.chown.php
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OK, well I just stuck a short script on the server and ran it to try and change the permission of the news file I'm writing to, and I got an error saying i'm not the owner, so the chmod failed. What can I do now? Here's the script: <?php chmod("news.txt", 722); ?>
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Thanks, the link explained a lot. However, I have more questions. Could anyone explain in more detail who falls into the "group" category as explained in the linked page? Also, I want certain pages on my site to be password protected by a simple method which checks the user-entered password against the one on file. Currently, anyone can view the contents of this file to find out the password. Should I use 722 for the permission setting for that file? If I chmod this file once, will it stay that way forever, or will I have to include a chmod somewhere in all my scripts to make sure that the file's permission settings stay like that?
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I wrote a very simple script that was supposed to update the contents of a news.txt file on the server's system, but I got "permission denied" errors when the script was run on the server. I searched this forum for answers and found a lot about chmod, which I now understand has to do with file access permissions. What I need is a clear explanation to a php noob about what chmod does, what's the significance of the number parameters (i.e. 755), and which number I should chmod to in my case. Thanks!
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Yes, michellm, that would be helpful. Please send it to jenbrandner@yahoo.com.
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Hi all, I am trying to teach myself a little PHP so I can put a news box on a website I'm designing. The news will be just a simple paragraph, not a blog, and it needs to be updated periodically by the site's owner. I plan to store the news content in a separate news.txt file on the server, and just use an include() to put the content onto the web page. What I need to know is how to use a form to input the news content and then write it to news.txt. Thanks!