PHP (md5) empty result - php

I have a problem with this code sample, the result is a blank page. I checked mcrypt_ecb function in php, and is available. Then why I got only empty result?
$suma='9990';
$idobj='38';
$cislooz='TEST';
$input=$suma.$idobj.$cislooz;
$key='KEY';
$encrypted_text = mcrypt_ecb(MCRYPT_3DES, $key, substr(sha1($input),0,8), MCRYPT_ENCRYPT,substr(sha1($input),0,8));
echo "<b>INPUT: </b>".$input."<br>";
echo "<b>KEY: </b>".$key."<br>";
echo "<b>Hash sha1: </b>".substr(sha1($input),0,8)."<br>";
echo "<b>Hash to 3DES/ECB/NoPadding:</b> ".( $encrypted_text )."<br>";
echo "<b>to HEX:</b> ".StrToUpper(bin2hex($encrypted_text))."<hr>";
?>

You are probably experiencing a problem somewhere. I tested it on PHP 5.3.0 and it output:
INPUT: 999038TEST
KEY: KEY
Hash sha1: c063a3be
Hash to 3DES/ECB/NoPadding: K\Aj¥íµÉ
to HEX: 4B5C416AA5EDB5C9
You may have a PHP error triggered but the only way to know that is to set:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors',1);
At the top of your script so that you'll be able to see what the error is.
Another explain is that you started an output buffer with ob_start() and you might be managing it wrong.
Or you could have an exit; or die(); somewhere.
As you can see there might be a lot of "because" for your question.
Edit:
Finally, at last we discovered the real problem. The spaces in his code where converted to the wrong invisible character; that's because it was copied from a PDF.
Here you can see: the first lines works fine and the space correspond to . in the script. The other symbol instead (of the commented green lines) was causing the problem.

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Cannot modify header information (connot detect header)

I checked all answers in different pages and use it, but the error still appears. Please help me.
The error is:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/iraustor/public_html/copytest/post.php:1) in /home/iraustor/public_html/copytest/post.php on line 57
The URL of form is here: http://iraust.org/copytest/contact.html
And the page that after complete the form is: http://www.iraust.org/copytest/thanks.html (or any other method to shod this message)
It has taken 2 days but answer. Please help me.
"header("Location:$Redirect_Page");"
If you issue headers, like you do for a redirect (setting Location) you MUST be sure that there's no other output before that statement, as PHP will already build the headers (however maybe not yet flushing them to the client) on the first output.
This might be the case for several reasons (unexpected error in some require, a whitespace at the beginning or end of some file, etc, but the error message you have is clear in mentioning where this output started: /home/iraustor/public_html/copytest/post.php:1.
You should double check that there's nothing before the opening and after the closing <?php ... ?> block. This applies to all included or required files in called script.
As pointed out by h7r, if you use the header function you cannot print anything before its call.
Remember that header() must be called before any actual output is sent, either by normal HTML tags, blank lines in a file, or from PHP.
From Header documentation on PHP.net
So, the first thing you should check is the line 57 in your post.php file: there starts the output that causes the error.
Be sure that no output is sent: also a white space or a blank lines is an output and this cause the error.
If you like, you can use the output control functions to buffer the output: in this way you can print what you want but all your outputs aren't sent immediately to browser, so you can use the header function without causing errors.
Put your code somewhere for us to look at...
Possibly PHP could be outputting an error, or a warning, etc... It might not be you for example.
no space before
I completely confused!
The form is working and the information will be send to e-mail
but the error makes feeling nervous for users
The problem solved by simple code editor (notpad++)
problem: hidden white space and non Unicode characters

PHP Scripts Encapsulating Returned JSON Array with Number Above and Number Below

I'm having a problem where my PHP scripts are returning my json encoded array with a number above and a number below it. Like follows:
26
[0,"edited_token_string"]
0
I have not changed any of the scripts that I'm encountering this on, but it is happening with all of them. I don't have any other echos other than the one used to echo the array. Our server was returning "null" from all of the scripts all morning and now is returning the correct array, with these numbers surrounding it. Is it possible something was updated on the server that accidentally turned on some type of debugging? I've called our hosting service, but they are incredibly unhelpful.
Thanks in advance,
Max
Try adding header('Content-type: application/json'); directly above the line that outputs your JSON. If something else has already outputted something, you will get an error telling you where in your code that happened.
For the undesired output after the JSON, could it be that there is also an extra space after the closing ?> tag? A quick and dirty fix would be to just add die; after the last intentional echo;

Is it possible to comment out a line of PHP code containing special "special" characters?

This is probably not constructive at all, and I'm asking more of curiosity than anything else, because I know how to overcome this issue by modifying the code.
Anyway, having this PHP line:
strip_tags(preg_replace('#<br\s*/?>#i', "\n", $nameXML));
Is there any way to comment out this line? (without any modifications to it!)
I have already tried using //,/**/, and # and in every case PHP has thrown a syntax error.
EDIT #1: I assume a commented line will not produce ANY output - if it does than it's not really commented out, is it?
EDIT #2: Please don't try too hard answering this question. It's not a real issue.
The reason why you are getting a strange output is because of the particular ?> in your regex. In this case, PHP is interpreting that as the end of the script, because the rest of the code is commented out. To answer your question directly, in this case, you cannot comment out that particular line of code without editing it. You would have to remove the ?> portion of the regex in order for the script to continue to run normally.
Edit:
Additionally, it would work if you encapsulated the comment in /* */ according to this post. However, because the regex has */ it is prematurely ending the block style comment, thus still breaking out of PHP mode and returning to HTML mode.

PHPExcel outputs garbled text

Like many others out there i have had my fair share of issues trying to download an Excel file output by PHPExcel.
What happened in my case was whenever I wanted to download a file using
$obj->save('php://output')
i always used to get garbled text in my excel file with a warning saying my file was corrupt. Eventually i resolved the issue. The problem being i had a
require('dbcon.php')
at the top of my php script. I just replaced that with whatever was there inside dbcon.php and it worked fine again.
Though the problem is solved i would really like to know what caused the problem. It would be great if anyone out there could help me out with this one.
Thanks.
If you get that error - you should follow the advice we always give in that situation: you use a text editor to look in the generated file for leading or trailing whitespace, or plaintext error messages - and then in your own scripts for anything that might generate that such as echo statements, blank lines outside ?> <?php, etc.
Another way of testing for this is to save to the filesystem rather than php://output and see if you get the same problem: if that works, then the problem is always something that your own script is sending to php://output as well.
Clearly you had a problem along those lines in your dbcon.php file. This can be as simple as a trailing newline after a closing ?> in the file...
Tanmay.
In situations like your's, there can be couple of reasons for broken output:
in file dbcon.php can be a whitespace before opening or ending php
tag, so that produce some chars to output and can make file broken
(this is reason for using only opening tag in php 5.3+);
maybe file dbcon.php wasn't found by require, so you got error message in otput;
any other errors or notices or warnings in dbcon.php, because presence of global vars from current file..

Not able to parse this json

I am trying to parse the json output from
http://www.nyc.gov/portal/apps/311_contentapi/services/all.json
And my php json_decode returns a NULL
I am not sure where the issue is, I tried running a small subset of the data through JSONLint and it validated the json.
Any Ideas?
The error is in this section:
{
"id":"2002-12-05-22-24-56_000010083df0188b4001eb56",
"service_name":"Outdoor Electric System Complaint",
"expiration":"2099-12-31T00:00:00Z",
"brief_description":"Report faulty Con Edison equipment, including dangling or corroded power lines or "hot spots.""
}
See where it says "hot spots." in an already quoted string. Those "'s should've been escaped. Since you don't have access to edit the JSON perhaps you could do a search for "hot spots."" and replace it with \"hot spots.\"" like str_replace('"hot spots.""', '\\"hot spots.\\""\, $str); for as long as that's in there. Of course that only helps if this is a one time thing. If the site continues to make errors in their JSON output you'll have to come up with something more complex.
What I did to identify the errors in the JSON ...
Since faulty quoting is the first thing to look for, I downloaded the JSON to a text file, opened in a text editor (I used vim but any full featured editor would do), ran a search and replace that removed all characters except double-quote and looked at the result. It was clear that correct lines should have 4 double-quotes so I simply searched for 5 double-quotes together and found the first bad line. I noted the line number and then undid the search and replace to get the original file back and looked at that line. This gives you what you need to get the developers of the API to fix the JSON.
Writing code to automatically fix the bad JSON before giving it to json_decode() would be quite a bit harder but doable using techniques like those in another answer.
According to the PHP manual:
In the event of a failure to decode, json_last_error() can be used to determine the exact nature of the error.
Try calling it to see where the error is.

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