Posts by edwinhermann

You can use cron to call a php page.
IN your crontab file, the command part would be something like this:

/usr/bin/php /users/me/www/myfile.php

AlmostBob's URL to the PHP site is fine, but his description is a bit off.
Slashes and spaces are fine. It's nothing to do with the character set but in fact to do with characters reserved for HTML code.

Imagine, for example that PHP_SELF contained a greater-than symbol like this: >

Then the rendered code without htmlspecialchars would be something like this:

<form action="aaaaa>bbbbb">

And that would render the HTML invalid because the end of the form tag is now before the bbbb's.

htmlspecialchars changes a few HTML-reserved characters into coded alternatives. The ones affected are:
ampersand
double quote
single quote
greater-than symbol
less-than symbol

So it's nothing to do with characters being lost in their journey between the browser and the web server, but more to do about generating valid HTML so that the browser understands it.

Sory for the bad code guys

It's just terrible, I feel sick just thinking about it.

Okay, I too have no idea what you're on about :D