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Need Some PHP Help

Is there a limitation to man's knowledge?

For all the hard work I have done to try finishing the PHP program, it seems that everything that I have tried doesn't work. Even I have tried consulting a few boards and communities in the internet, but to no avail, their suggestions won't work on my program either. There is still one more way to go, that is to consult my friend who works in a company that have ever made exactly what program I'm working on right now. But since today is a holiday in rememberance of the Ascension of Christ, I have to wait until tomorrow to see what I can do and whether my friend can be of any help. The scripting is already okay, so the problem must lie on my network settings (DNS resolution - not working for the PHP's gethostbyname internal function of the fsockopen function) or my Apache server settings.

For you who understand PHP, here is the test code I've been trying (I am going to develop a script for sending mass-SMS messages by using GET function to access the SMS server but right now I'm just trying to route it to my localhost)...

$host = "http://127.0.0.1";
$page = "/index.php";
$fp = fsockopen("$host", 80, &$errno, &$errdesc, 30);
if ( ! $fp )
{ die ( "Couldn't connect to $host:\nError: $errno\nDesc: $errdesc\n" ); }

$request = "GET $page HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$request .= "Host: $host\r\n";
$request .= "Connection: Close";
fputs ( $fp, $request );
while ( ! feof( $fp ) )
{ $page[] = fgets( $fp, 1024 ); }
fclose( $fp );print "the server returned ".(count($page))." lines!";

And here are the error messages I received:

Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: gethostbyname failed in test.php on line 4

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to http://127.0.0.1:80 in test.php on line 4
Couldn't connect to http://127.0.0.1: Error: 0 Desc: The operation completed successfully.

Can anyone help me fix this problem?
I think I have done it as it is written in the PHP manual (http://php.net/fsockopen), so if there are some mistakes in the code please do point out them and tell me about it.

Love Never Fails

Dedicated to Juli.

Love never fails, yet there are still so many obstacles blocking our journey. Can love finally won and open us a path? I do not know but if there is such a promise given, then surely the promise will be granted for us. Our part is to just believe (see struggle to believe) and wait for His time. But before that we have to make sure that our love is true and tested, can stand through the tests of time. Many have supported us and they are standing behind us. I do not know if they will still remain when the time comes for the final confrontation to break down the final obstacle, but be still and believe in the LORD when He said that He will never leave us nor forsake us.

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Cinta Sejati
by Franky Sihombing / Nikita

Saat ku renungkan, hidup bersama-Mu
Sering kali ku melupakan-Mu
Ku berjalan sendiri, seakan ku mampu
Lalui tanpa kekuatan-Mu
    Semakin berat beban hidupku
    Semakin ku menjauh darimu
Namun ada cinta yang tak pernah berakhir
Cinta yang ku dapat dari-Mu
Tlah teruji lalui rentangan sang waktu
Kau mati bagiku
Berkorban bagi hidupku

Struggle To Believe

For background information about this event please read news and articles about the Nias Earthquake in March 28th in case you haven't known about it already. You can find it spreading almost everywhere in major news sites like BBC, CNN and ABCNEWS, also if you look in Google and another search engines. Even Wikipedia and Wikinews have in-depth articles about it.

A medical team from my church has finished a mission to aid the earthquake victims of Nias. Along with medical support, they also brought food and supplies for the people, although limited because they can only carry 10 kgs of baggage per person in the plane. They went to South Nias, where relief aid has been minimum and no medical team is present there. My friend who joined the team as a cameraman brought in a 24-minutes video footage which was presented in the Youth today. It was a sad and gruesome video to watch, especially the recording when the medical team was working on tending the people's injuries and wounds, ugh I couldn't watch it because if I force myself to do it maybe I will puke, and almost all of my friends especially the females couldn't stand it too... it was too scary to watch (imagine a scene where a doctor lifts a patient's fingernail on his foot and cut and lifted some kind of infected and already blackened flesh from the finger... aaaagh!!!)

I don't know whether this is true or not, but I heard 99% of the people are Christians. I can't imagine if I was in their position, how hard would be their struggle to believe that God is still there and caring for them. Even if my current condition I am constantly lashing out at God if things don't work out correctly, especially considering there are many problems in my life lately (can you think electronic devices broken down all at the same time this month?). I think I must behave myself better and imagine if I was in their position. They still believe on God, even though they have no home, they have no food, they have no clothes, they have no medicines... and when the medical team came it was surprising to see how much will to live they have left in them. We have to learn to be content and be thankful for everything we have, everything we have here right now is a miracle from God, we are still living and breathing and not being deprived of anything.

Meanwhile, continue to pray for our brothers and sisters over there. I heard that there will be another medical team sent there soon, hopefully it can help those who are in great need. When my friend was there the people were still in tents where in one tent there could be 5 to 8 families (imagine that). At that time they were residing in the front yard of a school, but since the school was to be used again from this Monday, my friend and I do not know where these people will move to. They are homeless and they have nowhere to go. If you were one of them, can you still believe and hold on to your faith?

Reawakening II

~ FOUR MONTHS LATER ~

The winding path, the ongoing road
It goes on and on, never ending, never ceasing

The road has brought me back to this place
To once again reawaken the place of memories
Living my life as an endless journey
Leaving traces behind like the steps on the sand

Oh how far and wide is the great world
Never ending and never ceasing
I will walk the journey of an everlasting road
Knowing that someday, it will bring me back to this place again

Fait Accompli

I have finished everything in its time...

I have finished both the Internship Project Report and the Final Project Proposal on Tuesday and I have submitted them all to my campus' administration. I thank God for giving me the strength to make it through all this. Even though at times I feel hopeless, really He has never left me nor forsaken me, He is always with me. And now I want to give Him all my thanks and gratitudes from deep within my heart.

I have also been given another blessing. Like you know, I was sick last week so I could not join the Christmas Cantata's initial recording. But then I was given a chance to fill in the Bass Solo part, whoa. Just 8 months in the choir and called for a solo! Even though I am a Tenor voice, I was chosen because it is said that my voice has the depth that is needed for that part (although after I heard my voice on the recording I have to admit that my voice is not that good). The part that bugs me though, why do I always get to play the role of the enemy? First, I was Judas on Easter, and now I'm filling King Herod. From traitor to killer. I don't know what does this have in relation to my spiritual life, but like my friends tell me, as long as it can be a blessing for those who hear it, and it can magnify God's glory then it is okay...

Next Schedule:
16 Dec - Surabaya Gathering with Mee-a, Cheesca, Adjie and maybe some others.
18 Dec - Christmas Youth Celebration in church.
25 Dec - Christmas Global Celebration in mall including Christmas Cantata "Night of Wonders" and Classic Oriental Drama "The Missing Pearl".

Now I am waiting for the December 16th, can't wait to be together with those people. Ahhh... it is still one week later, I hope we can do everything as planned and share happiness among us.

High Fever

Chette's forum is up and running again after the few hours outage a few days ago, and I am happy to be able to witness two people (Ranma Saki and Akane Hanaka) coming to God and receiving the Gift of Salvation. One more person seems to be coming near to the Truth too, so that is great news. Since we are wrestling and winning souls over Satan, the attacks to the forum has increased by a lot. The forum has been downed a few times these last days, so all the mods are encouraged to have a backup of the mySQL database each of their own. God has appointed 12 mods (including 2 admins, Chette and Philip as the owner) to be in the forum, and He Himself will be watching and guarding over it too. Right now, as of the 12, only 10 has been found out, and we are still waiting for the other two to be revealed. We do not know yet just who they might be.

The other attack was dealt to me yesterday. On Thursday, I ran under the rain for about 100+ metres from my campus' P Building to my car in the parking lot, trying hard not to soak my laptop, because I didn't bring my umbrella that time. And later that night I had a choir practice with the fellow tenors at church on 9 to 11 PM. Even though I used an umbrella that night, due to the strong wind, I was still getting soaked. So the combination of me getting soaked with the rain all-day, plus the tiredness of a hard day and the late night practice, has taken its toll too high for my body to handle.

On Friday morning, after I went to college on 8 AM I felt unwell, so I went home and slept from 10 AM until 2 PM. And even after 4-hours of sleep my body still feel unwell, my throat started to hurt and my body started to generate heat. And there it was, I was having a fever and until today, as I am writing this blog, I have not fully recovered and my fever is getting worse. I am afraid that if I do not recover soon I might lose the chance to take part on the Christmas Cantata, but I still have yet to ask the leader if it is okay for me to not join the recording but still take part on the final Cantata night (we have to dance too, so I can focus on that part instead). But that might be unfair, because June could not join the Cantata night due to her still infected throat (until today) and so she didn't went to practice and no recording either. June told me though, that she has not practiced since a few months ago so that is okay for her. But I practiced until the end, and got sick three days before the final recording day (set on Monday, do not know if it will be pushed back to Friday again), so due to my hard work and practice I might still earn the place to be there during the night.

On another account, God has helped me with my Final Project proposal. I have found the two lecturers to help me during the final project and both have agreed on my proposal. Now what is left is the internship project report, have to finish it before December 9th, I think I can make it on time if only I wasn't sick. I must recover quickly and make my reports done on time.

And yeah, there will be SOOOOOOO many people coming to Surabaya after December, 10th. I can't wait to meet Chees, Test, Ivan, Finna, and many others. Especially Chees, welcome back sis, and you will be my next sister, second one other than that sister Mee-a who have knocked my head with her lunch box many times.....

*runs* :p