MySQL Error Function Wrapper for PHP

by damonp on February 7, 2011

in Development,PHP,SQL

I was recently asked to supply some development and debugging functionality to a web application built for a client. The following function can be configured to popup for only your IP, and gives an error message containing the SQL, line number and file for easy debugging of the error.

I like this function over my current hobbled together debug kit because the display is positioned top center of the page via CSS no matter where the error occurs. Plus it includes a hide button to hide the majority of the error output and remove button to remove the error display altogether.

<?php
    function mysql_error_wrapper($q, $sql='', $line='', $file='')   {
        if($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != 'YOUR LOCAL IP')  return false;
?>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"><!--
function showhide(d) {
    if(document.getElementById(d).style.display == "none") {
        document.getElementById(d).style.display = "block";
        document.getElementById('shde').innerHTML = "hide";
    }   else {
        document.getElementById(d).style.display = "none";
        document.getElementById('shde').innerHTML = "show";    
    }
}

function remove()   {
    document.getElementById('errorblock').style.display = "none";
}
//--></script>

<?php
        echo '<div id="errorblock" style="display:block;position:absolute;top:10px;left:10%;width:80%;background:#efefef;text-align:left;border:1px solid #CD0000;padding:10px;">';
        echo '<a href="#" onclick="showhide(\'sqlerror\')"><span id="shde">hide</span></a> - <a href="#" onclick="remove();">remove</a>';
        echo '<h3 style="color:#CD0000;">MySQL error: '.mysql_errno().' <small style="font-weight:normal;">Line: #'.$line.' '.basename($file).'</small></h3>';
       
        echo '<pre id="sqlerror" style="height:250px;overflow:auto;padding:10px;">';
       
        echo wordwrap(mysql_error());
       
        if($sql != '')  {
            echo '<h4>SQL</h4>'.wordwrap($sql);
        }

        if($line != '') {
            echo '<h4>Line</h4>'.$line;
        }
       
        if($file != '') {
            echo '<h4>File</h4>'.$file;
        }
                   
        echo '</pre>';
        echo '</div>';         
   
    }
?>

Usage example:

<?php
    $sql = "YOUR SQL STATEMENT";
    $q = mysql_query($sql, $db);
    if(!$q) mysql_error_wrapper($q, $sql, __LINE__, __FILE__);
?>

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Download a Remote File Using PHP and cURL

by damonp on February 3, 2011

in PHP,Snippets

Some years back, I posted a function to download a remote file with PHP. The function was useful when cURL and other URL/remote file functions had been disabled for security reasons. At the time, cURL on PHP was relatively new and many hosting setups didn’t include the cURL PHP module.

Support for PHP-cURL is pretty standard now, so I thought I’d update the the function to use cURL now. In addition, the function no longer returns a buffer containing the file data which can cause memory issues in PHP when dealing with large files. Pass this updated function a remote URL and local file path and it will download the file and save it to the local path.

This function is useful to retrieve remote images, download HTML pages and download any remote files.

<?php
   
    function http_get_file($remote_url, $local_file)    {
       
        $fp = fopen($local_file, 'w');
       
        $cp = curl_init($remote_url);
        curl_setopt($cp, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
       
        $buffer = curl_exec($cp);
       
        curl_close($cp);
        fclose($fp);
       
        return true;
    }
?>

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