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So it has recently occurred to me that my method of error handling is sloppy and cumbersome. What I want to do is record all of the errors that occur and allow the page to finish loading. Then display them in a designated error panel on my page. Granted that if I come across a major error I do want to stop the script but for minor errors such as incorrect credentials or some other custom error I may want to display I want to neatly display them all without stopping the script. Can anyone offer any advice?

Oh yeah I forgot I still had this old link up. I fixed it here http://icca.exiled-alliance.com. I changed the name of it so that it was more general. I still haven't put anything in those tabs. Kinda lost interest in this thing but it gets a lot of use at my work place. Every time my web server goes down, I get spammed by people wanting to know when it would be fixed haha.

Ok, thanks Ignace.

So there really is no right or wrong way to use them then other than trying to keep them primarily for Setter use. Cool, thank you Thorpe.

So, I recently discovered what method chaining is and how it can be used. My question about method chaining is in regards to best practice. What I want to know is what the correct way to implement methods that can be chained are, and what pitfalls will I need to watch out for when using them?

Here is the solution I came up with using Curl instead of Fsockopen. <?php //Curl Test Function define("HOST","api.host.com"); //API HOST define("ACCT_INFO","/account/information/1.0/"); //Defines the api path for getting account and product details. define("KEY_ID","XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"); //Defines key identification code. define("SECRET_KEY","XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"); //Defines secret response. function hmacsha1($secret, $string){ $blocksize = 64; $hashfunc = 'sha1'; if (strlen($secret) > $blocksize) $secret = pack('H*', $hashfunc($secret)); $secret = str_pad($secret,$blocksize,chr(0x00)); $ipad = str_repeat(chr(0x36),$blocksize); $opad = str_repeat(chr(0x5c),$blocksize); $hmac = pack('H*',$hashfunc(($secret^$opad).pack('H*',$hashfunc(($secret^$ipad).$string)))); return $hmac; } function fetch_info($customer,$action,$method){ if($customer!==""){ if($action!==""){ $accept = 'application/json'; // Assign json application $proxy = "https://".HOST.$action.$customer; // Assign the proxy (URL/URI) $path = HOST.$action.$customer; // Authorization Header $date = gmdate('r'); // GMT based timestamp $string = join("\n", array("GET", $accept, $date, $proxy)); // Join string with new lines $signature = base64_encode(hmacsha1(SECRET_KEY, $string)); // Create authorization signature $ch = curl_init(); //Initialize the Curl Session. //Set all the necessary headers to authenticate. $headers = array( "$method $path HTTP/1.1", "Host: ".HOST, "Accept: $accept", "Content-Type: $accept", "Authorization: VKEY ".KEY_ID.":$signature", "Date: $date", "Connection: Close" ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); //Feeds the header details into the request. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); //Mostly for debugging. if 3rd argument is 1, include header response. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $proxy); //Sets the URL/PATH. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); //Allows returned data to be stored in a variable for later use. $results = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true); //Returned data in an associative array. curl_close($ch); //Close the curl session return $results; //Returns an array of data requested. }else{ $error = "Missing Argument: [Action]"; return $error; } }else{ $error = "Missing Argument: [Customer ID]"; return $error; } } ?>

Hey man, thanks a lot for the help on that. That is a much cleaner way of doing this.

I got it figured out. So far it works out exactly the same when I manually work out the numbers. <?php //Initialize Variables if($_POST['num1']!=="" || $_POST['num2']!==""){ $num1 = $_POST['num1']; $num2 = $_POST['num2']; }else{ die("Both fields require a number"); } //Function calulates the Greatest Common Factor from 2 given numbers. function gcd($num1,$num2){ while($num1 !== $num2){ if($num1 > $num2){ //While $num1 is equal $num2 $num1 = $num1 - $num2; //Subtract $num1 from $num2 $gcd = $num1; }else{ $num2 = $num2 - $num1; //Subtract $num1 from $num2 $gcd = $num2; } if($gcd <=1){ //Checks if the gcd is lower than 1. if it is, then stop the loop and make gcd equal to the number before we hit 0 $gcd = $num1; break; } } $result = "The GCD of ".$_POST['num1'] ." and ". $_POST['num2']." is : ".$gcd; return $result; } echo gcd($_POST['num1'],$_POST['num2']); ?>

Hello everyone. So in my programing class which is starting out doing flow charts. We were asked to do a flow chart that shows the process of calculating the GCD from 2 numbers. I wanted to try it out for real in php. The issue I am having is that after the first time its used, any attempt to use it after that results in a never ending loop that ends up tanking my server, and I have to restart apache to fix the problem. I am trying to come up with a solution to prevent that but I am drawing a blank. Looping is still somewhat new to me. At least when dealing with just numbers. Here is my code,. If anyone can offer any advice I would appreciate it. <?php //Initialize Variables if($_POST['num1']!=="" || $_POST['num2']!==""){ $num1 = $_POST['num1']; $num2 = $_POST['num2']; }else{ die("Both fields require a number"); } //Function calulates the Greatest Common Factor from 2 given numbers. function gcd($num1,$num2){ while($num1 !== $num2){ if($num1 > $num2){ //While $num1 is equal $num2 $num1 = $num1 - $num2; //Subtract $num1 from $num2 $gcd = $num1; }else{ $num2 = $num2 - $num1; //Subtract $num1 from $num2 $gcd = $num2; } } $result = "The GCD of ".$_POST['num1'] ." and ". $_POST['num2']." is : ".$gcd; return $result; } echo gcd($_POST['num1'],$_POST['num2']); ?>

Hello all, I am working on a project that has a function in it that I don't completely understand. From what I can understand about it; it appears to create a hash from 2 strings. The parts I don't understand is the methods it is going about it with. Here is the function. If someone could please break this down for me into its parts with a brief explanation of what each part is doing, I would be very appreciative. <?php function hmacsha1($secret, $string){ $blocksize = 64; $hashfunc = 'sha1'; if (strlen($secret) > $blocksize) $secret = pack('H*', $hashfunc($secret)); $secret = str_pad($secret,$blocksize,chr(0x00)); $ipad = str_repeat(chr(0x36),$blocksize); $opad = str_repeat(chr(0x5c),$blocksize); $hmac = pack('H*',$hashfunc(($secret^$opad).pack('H*',$hashfunc(($secret^$ipad).$string)))); return $hmac; } ?>

Yo, Gizmola. I got this all working through curl now. So much easier than fsockopen. Thanks again for your help!

I actually got it figured out. I think that example is very out of date or something. I don't even need the fopen function to make it work. I have a new issue now, but I will make a new post since it's not related to curl or fopen. Thanks though. Here is basically what I did. <?php $ch = curl_init(); //Initialize the Curl Session. $headers = array( "GET $path HTTP/1.1", "Host: $host", "Accept: $accept", "Content-Type: $accept", "Authorization: VKEY $keyid:$signature", "Date: $date", "Connection: Close" ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $proxy); $results = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); ?>

hello all, I am trying to teach my self how to use curl to get the contents of a remote file. I am using the example provided on the php.net website under the curl example. <?php //Curl driven verio api test $ch = curl_init("http://curtisdorris.com/"); //Initialize the Curl Session. $fp = fopen("index.php","r"); //Open the file for reading only curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); fclose($fp); ?> I am getting the following warnings and I am unable to find any information as to why I am getting them. It still works but I really want to take care of these warnings before I continue further. Warning: fopen(index.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/UID/www/tools.exiled-alliance.com/apitest/curltest.php on line 4 Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /home/UID/www/tools.exiled-alliance.com/apitest/curltest.php on line 6 Can anyone offer any in-sight as to wtf is going on?

Awesome. I will let you know if I need any help. Thanks.

The authentication required is over www-auth. Can curl or fopen do that? I've only used curl and fopen. At there most basic