Michael Gracie

Easy fix, despite the official line from PHP which says you need to recompile PHP –with-mcrypt.

I’ll caveat this by stating I’m using Fedora Core 7…

1) At the terminal, su root - you are now going to yum, not ./configure, make, and make install…

2) yum install mcrypt - this will get you libmcrypt, mhash, and mcrypt

3) yum install php-mcrypt - this will get you the functionality within PHP

Uh…done (without hassles).

PHP is under increased security scrutiny, which comes as little surprise.

PHP is a dynamic scripting language, and a favorite tool of hobbyists (think “personal home page”). Plenty of folks start open-source projects using PHP, those projects become popular for their ease of installation and use (think Mambo), and few pay attention to the cross-site scripting holes and the like until long after businesses decide to employ their use.

It’s not inherent flaws with the language per-se, but instead the effort PHP is going to have to make to get out of the “script kiddie” arsenal. Is this an opportunity for someone to set up shop doing nothing but fixing holes in PHP-based applications, or is the world going to wait for the open-source workhorses to find them themselves?

My better judgement was tossed on the front steps this last Wednesday, the moment the MacMall sales associate told me there was no sales tax on products purchased online, for delivery to me.

New release Apple Powerbook G4 12 inch with Superdrive. 80gb hard, 512mb RAM, Airport Extreme, Bluetooth 2.0, etc. etc. Oops.

Now for some initial thoughts after tinkering around with it for the last six hours…….
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I’ve got to pass thanks on to michaelk, Senior Member at Linux Questions.org for figuring out why my PHP scripts would not work on FC3, despite my crude attempt at explaining the problem.

Repeat after me…..PHP scripts must have Unix permission 644 in order to run on Apache. Again, PHP scripts must have Unix permission 644 in order to run on Apache.

Dumb mistake figured out by a quick thinker. Thanks again.