Certain strings not reaching PHP via GET - php

I'm working with a very simple mock-up application to query a DB and display the results on a map. The application sends a GET httprequest to a server which returns a serialized array of value. The basic structure of the httprequest is:
httpRequest.open("GET","handle-query.php?query=" + queryJs)
and, on the other side:
$queryPhp = $_GET["query"];
When the query looks like this...
["SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%region='Centre'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%region='Kara'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%region='Maritime'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%region='Plateaux'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%region='Savanes'"]
...then it is passed to the server properly, and generates a response. However, when the query looks like this...
["SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Sotouboua'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Tchamba'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Tchaoudjo'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Assoli'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Bassar'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Bimah'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Doufelgou'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Keran'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Kozah'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Golfe'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Lacs'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Vo'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Yoto'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Zio'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Amou'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Haho'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Kloto'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Ogou'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Wawa'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Oti'", "SELECT%SUM(commit)%FROM%financialdata%WHERE%prefect='Tone'"]
...then the server receives an empty string. Both of the strings are generated by the same function, and both work perfectly on my virtual server (WAMP). If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated.
(P.S. After reading I realize that I should be using a framework with better sanitization, etc., but this is just a demo that will need to live online for maybe 2 hours, and it would be better to fix this small thing than start over. It works perfectly on my localhost.)

To actually answer your question, you're sending a get parameter as query (handle-query.php?query=) and then pulling it off as queryJS (queryJs).
$_GET['query'] // instead of $_GET['queryJs']
should do it.
(And as everyone has pointed out, don't send SQL in the clear or otherwise over the wire, unless you plan on not actually executing the SQL, and you just like to advertise your db structure, maybe it is that pretty.)

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PHP runs a storing procedure on a database, how can I see concrete parameters passed into without altering source code?

Here is php code:
$query = Container::get('db_connection')
->prepare('sp_Util_SearchMemberByKeyWord');
$query->bind('szSort', $searchcol, DatabaseTypes::NVARCHAR(100))
->bind('szKeyWord', $searchstr, DatabaseTypes::NVARCHAR(100))
->bind('partnerid', $partnerid, DatabaseTypes::INT)
->bind('hideDisabled', $hideDisabled, DatabaseTypes::INT)
->bind('hideDemo', $hideDemo, DatabaseTypes::INT)
->bind('hideByLmtdAccountManagerUserID',
$hideByLimitedAccountManagerUserID, DatabaseTypes::NVARCHAR(100))
->execute();
I need to see exact values of the params passed into the storing procedure. There is no way I can debug or alter source code. Google Chrome (or any other browser) seems to be only one option. I also got access to the appropriate database. Can I capture those values somehow using built-in Chrome functionality or some advanced features of SQL Management Studio?
P.S. I am not php dev, not at all.
The simplest way to see variables in PHP is using the var_dump(); and exit;
Use it before your code.
For example:
var_dump($searchcol); exit;

Codeigniter POST/GET variables and $this->input->post

I have an issue with post variables in Codeigniter, for now I fixed it, but I'm not sure if this is fine, in other words, I'd really like to know why I had issue only on hosting server, not on local.
The problem:
I wanted more secure script so I replaced $_POST/$_GET with $this->input->post and $this->input->get, like in this example:
if(!empty($this->input->get('endDate'))){
$data['datepicker'] = $this->input->get('thisDate');
}
this was all working fine on my localhost, but I assume it is wrong way, as when I deployed to the hosting server, I've got ajax parse error from validation engine that I'm using, I couldn't log in the system, getting all the time ajax parse error, and somehow figured out that whenever I checked if empty$this->input->post('var) or the same with get, was wrong.
I have checked the input class from Codeigniter and figured out, that $this->input->post is returning true/false, so I changed the scripts in the format like this:
if(!($this->input->get('endDate'))){
$data['datepicker'] = $this->input->get('thisDate');
}
this worked fine.
I'm still wondering - why the code worked on the localhost, but it didn't on the server or what is the best way to check if the POST/GET variable is empty or not.Seems I really miss something out.
Thank you.
Consider that checking for empty($this->post->get('var')) will always return false, no matter if the POST/GET exists, so it might be for that reason only. - So i'm not sure why you got the error on a different environment, but the first statement is wrong, it's exactly like writing if(true)
Also, I'd check for a strong assertion of false for inputs, You never know when you might need a zero as an input and if you're used to this practice, you might get an accidental false.

I want to send requests from a UE4 c++ game to my php script, so that it interacts with a mysql database

i'm searching the inet for around 3 days now and i'm stuck at this.
I got a MySQL Database and a php Script, as well as a Game made in UE4.
UE4 uses c++.
So now i want to send requests from the c++ game to the php script and that shall interact with the database.
For example create an account or login. I also want to pass the mysql query result of the php script to my c++ class.
I tried using HttpRequest, but i can't get data from php to c++ with that.
Maybe you can, but i don't understand it at all.
What i accomplished by now is that you can send a POST request from the game to the php script and pass variables so that the script uses them to perform the mysql query.
But how can i pass data from the php file to c++ now? The response i get is always the whole site (head and body) and i don't know where i could save the query result to pass it to the c++ code.
I'm a full beginner here, so go easy on me. I read so many different posts and blogs that my brain hurts like hell ): I hope someone can tell me how to do this easily or at least give me a hint on what i have to google and what i could use. I don't need a full tutorial, just a name of a library better than the Http.h (if simple HttpRequest cant manage this) would be enough. ): I'm really frustrated...
eXi
The PHP script should retun a HTTP response reduced to a bare minimum. It doesn't even need to be a HTML document:
<?php
// file: api.php
$param = $_POST['myparam'];
$foo = bar($param); // $foo contains e.g. "1,ab,C"
echo $foo; // if you opened http://myhost.com/api.php in a browser
// all you would see is "1,ab,C"
// (which is not a valid HTML document, but who cares)
?>
Then parse this HTTP response (a plain string, that is) from your game. You can use your own data format, or use a well-known format of your choice (XML or JSON are good candidates).
The json object in unreal is pretty good, so I would recommend outputting json from your php script. Json in php is a pretty natural workflow.
<?php
$obj['userid'] = 5476;
$obj['foo'] = 'bar';
echo json_encode($obj);
php?>
That will echo out
{"userid":5476,"foo":"bar"}
If that's all you output in your script then it's pretty straightforward to treat that as a string and populate an unreal json object with it.
FString TheStuffIGotFromTheServer;
TSharedPtr<FJsonObject> ParsedJson;
TSharedRef<TJsonReader<TCHAR>> JsonReader = TJsonReaderFactory<TCHAR>::Create(TheStuffIGotFromTheServer);
if (FJsonSerializer::Deserialize(JsonReader, ParsedJson))
{
FString foo = ParsedJson.GetStringField("foo");
double UserId = ParsedJson.GetNumberField("userid");
}
Check out the unreal json docs to get a feel for what you can do with it.

PHP, can't set variable via $_POST

I have a slightly frustrating problem...
I'm sending a form value to PHP via AJAX and that seem to work fine.
When I do var_dump in PHP I see my values I can also set a variable and echo it correctly.
However, the line
$prod_id=$_POST['product'];
causes an uncaught type error in the browser.
If I just set the variable with text in PHP everything works fine.
To conclude, this piece of code works fine:
$prod_id=("Slab Skate");
$selected_customers = mysqli_query($link,"SELECT * FROM customers
INNER JOIN cust_products on cust_products.cust_id=id
INNER JOIN products on products.prod_id=cust_products.product_id
WHERE products.prod_name='$prod_id'");
This code causes uncaught typerror:
$prod_id=$_POST['product']
Same SQL statement as above.
If I do
var_dump ($prod_id);
after setting it with $_POST I get:
string(10) "Slab Skate"
My form data in network headers tab of Chrome developer tools say:
product:Slab Skate
I don't get it...
Thanks in advance for any tips.
Update and some clarifications.
The error I get is this: "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'documentElement' of null" which is a Javascript error coming from a function later in the code. However, since the whole thing works if I "hardcode" the variable instead of setting it from $_POST my assumption was that the error must reside in PHP.
But maybe that's not the case...
What I'm doing is the following: posting a form value to PHP -> use value to select from my_sql and prepare an XML output. So far so good, (I can see the xml output in Chrome dev tools) but then I go back to a javascript to fetch the xml output from my PHP file and then it fails.
When thinking about it, it's rather obvious why it works with a "hardoded" variable and not with the $_POST set one.
So, I see two solutions either set the PHP variable in my_sql or using javascript more intelligently.
Do anyone have a smart solution? I could post all the code, but it's quite long.
Second update:
I solved the issue by writing an xml file to the server instead of trying to download it from the php file. Then my java function can process the xml correctly.
It does work, but I'm not sure how well it scales? It must be better to process the xml output from PHP directly rather then saving it to file first and then process. But, I have no insight on how big the difference is...
/Tim
I wouldn't use SELECT * FROM when using Inner Join if i were you. that would cause all sort of problems , simply give the names of columns.

using file get contents on a url that requires post data

i need to do a "file_get_contents" on a URL and there has to be data posted to the url before the contents are retrieved. is this possible? maybe something like
$contents = file_get_contents($_POST"http://www.example.com/");
so that i can then work with the $contents variable?
You cannot*** POST data using file_get_contents, you must use something like cURL
* I mark this because it is actually possible taking advantage of the third parameter which uses http context(see example one). However it really isn't worth your trouble if you have something like cURL.
Ah, I have tried to do this. Simply put you can't unless you install new extra software on your sever and go through A LOT of hassel and server load.
Best bet is to use GET if at all possible!
:)

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