[oclug] Linux Server or PHP?

Thu Apr 5 20:55:38 EDT 2007

On 4/5/07, Zhimmy Kanata <kanata_zhimmagish at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   Those <---- I put in just to help whomever was willing to give me a ear. They aren't in my program I have running on the server.
>
>   I got the code from a place called www.avengingsorrow.com
>
>   Thanks for you time and any other advice you have is greatly appreciated.
>
>   Cheers
>
>   Zhimmy
>
>
>
>
> The Linux Doctor <linuxdoctor at linux.ca> wrote:
>   On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:53:51 -0400 (EDT)
> Zhimmy Kanata wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running into an interesting problem..Maybe its just me..
> >
> > But in the program below I have passed a $email into the mail() function. The server runs the function and its suppose to send a email to whoever is listed in $email...its running the function and delivers nothing!? I would have thought that if it wasn't running the function it would display and internal error message? So is it me..which I imagine it is or is it the server? Hmmm.... my code is listed below. If can anyone can help it would be apprecatied.
> >
> > > require("config.php");
> > require("functions.php");
> >
>
> Well, for starters, where is this from? phpNuke or one of it's clones?
>
> PHP is pretty dumb when it comes to syntactic analysis. Sometimes it
> picks up errors other times it doesn't.
>
> I'm currently working on a website that worked properly only because a
> particular module PHP module had the right number of quote marks to
> cover over the syntax errors. The programmers of the site were too
> inexperienced to understand the problem and kluged all sorts of work
> around patches until it worked.
>
> Needless to say, when I touched the thing it all fell apart.
>
> Neither I nor anybody here is going to count your quotes.
>
> In any case, check this
>
> "<--- I echo it and it displays it..must be being passed down. "
>
>
>
> >>>-fja->
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > //echo some styles to spice it up...
> > echo "
> >
> > body
> >    {
> >    background: #131313;
> >    font-family: Verdana, Arial;
> >    font-weight: bold;
> >    font-size: 9px;
> >    color: #FFFFFF;
> >    }
> >
> > .register_box
> >    {
> >    border: 1px solid #323232;
> >    background: #202020;
> >    font-family: Verdana, Arial;
> >    font-weight: bold;
> >    font-size: 9px;
> >    color: #FFFFFF;
> >    }
> >
> > ";
> > switch($_GET['action'])
> > {
> > case "new":
> > //--------------------------------------
> > //[New Registration]
> > //--------------------------------------
> > if(!isset($_POST['register']))
> > {
> > echo "
> >
> > Username:
>
> >  [input]
> >
>
> > Email:
>
> >  [input]
> >
>
> > Password:
>
> >  [input]
> >
>
> >  [input]
> >
> > ";
> >
> > }
> > elseif(isset($_POST['register']))
> > {
> > $username = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['username']);
> > $password = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['password']);
> > $email = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['email']);
> > $activation_code = generateCode(25);
> >
> > $userq = "SELECT username FROM user_system WHERE username = '$username' LIMIT 1";
> > $emailq = "SELECT email FROM user_system WHERE email = '$email' LIMIT 1";
> >
> > //put errors into an array
> > $errors = array();
> > if(empty($username))
> > {
> > $errors[] = "The username field was blank!
> ";
> > }
> > if(mysql_num_rows(mysql_query($userq)) > 0)
> > {
> > $errors[] = "The username given is already in use! Please try another one!
> ";
> > }
> > if(empty($password))
> > {
> > $errors[] = "The password field was blank!
> ";
> > }
> > if(empty($email))
> > {
> > $errors[] = "The email field was blank!
> ";
> > }
> > if(mysql_num_rows(mysql_query($emailq)) > 0)
> > {
> > $errors[] = "The email given is already in use! Please try another one!
> ";
> > }
> > if(count($errors) > 0)
> > {
> > foreach($errors as $err)
> > {
> > echo $err;
> > }
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > $sqlq = "INSERT INTO user_system (username, password, email, is_activated, activation_code)";
> > $sqlq .= "VALUES ('$username', '".md5($password)."', '$email', '0', '$activation_code')";
> > mysql_query($sqlq) or die(mysql_error());
> >
> >
> > echo "$email"; <--- I echo it and it displays it..must be being passed down.
> >
> >
> >
> > echo "Thanks for registering!
> > You will recieve an email shortly containing your validation code,
> > and a link to activate your account!";
> >
> >
> > mail($email, "New Registration, www.sitename.ca", " <--Doesn't work
> > Thanks for registering on SITE NAME.
> > Here are your login details:
> >
> > Username: ".$username."
> > Password: ".$password."
> >
> > In order to login and gain full access, you must validate your account.
> >
> > Click here to validate:
> >
> > http://www.sitename.ca/register.php?action=activate&user=".$username."&code=".$activation_code."
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > [Webmaster]
> > ");
> >
> > }
> > }
> > break;
> >
> > case "activate":
> > //--------------------------------------
> > //[Activate Account]
> > //--------------------------------------
> > if(isset($_GET['user']) && isset($_GET['code']))
> > {
> > $username = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['user']);
> >
> > if(mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("SELECT id FROM user_system WHERE username = '$username'")) == 0)
> >
> > {
> > echo "That username is not in the database!";
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > $activate_query = "SELECT is_activated FROM user_system WHERE username = '$username'";
> > $is_already_activated = mysql_fetch_object(mysql_query($activate_query)) or die(mysql_error());
> >
> > if($is_already_activated->is_activated == 1)
> > {
> > echo "This user is already activated!";
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > $code = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['code']);
> > $code_query = "SELECT activation_code FROM user_system WHERE username = '$username' LIMIT 1";
> > $check_code = mysql_fetch_object(mysql_query($code_query)) or die(mysql_error());
> >
> > if($code == $check_code->activation_code)
> > {
> > $update = "UPDATE user_system SET is_activated = '1' WHERE username = '$username'";
> > mysql_query($update) or die(mysql_error());
> > echo "User $username has been activated! Thanks! You may now login!";
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > echo "The activation code was wrong! Please try again!";
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > echo "No ID or user given to activate!";
> > }
> > break;
> > }
> > ?>
> >
> >
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Is your server properly configured to send mail out ?  At quick
glance, the code looks allright, but if the server can't send mail,
then it stands to reason that it won't work.

Is sendmail or some sort of MTA running (exim, qmail, etc) ?  Can you
telnet to port 25 (telnet localhost 25) ?   From the command line, can
you run the 'mail' program (or pine or mutt) and successfully send out
an email ?