Recent Posts Tagged With php

• fail2ban and Google translate: how to easily cut your WP blog traffic

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 06:11 pm in Software, php, blog, web, wordpress, traffic, URL, wordpress plugins, whitelist, wp, rule, google translate

  fail2ban has a php-url-fopen rule. WordPress has a Global Translator plugin, which – among others – uses Google Translate service. If someone uses Google Translate (e.g. using Global Translate’s mini-language-flags), and goes back t...

• Configuring web-server: for production and for development

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 10:16 am in Software, php, programming, links, development, How-To, production, notepad, web-server

  Production: see http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-apache2-with-mod_fcgid-and-php5-on-debian-etch – it is for Debian Etch (which is old-stable), but many of the steps apply equally well to Debian Lenny (current-stable). Also, this is a ver...

• Debugging PHP: Eclipse PDT + XDebug + XDebug helper

  Posted on Sunday June 7th, 2009 at 05:59 pm in Software, php, programming, Firefox, links, development, bug, eclipse, debugging, xdebug, pdt

  Stimulated by a bug in a complex and unfamiliar web PHP application with heaps of custom tweaks by other programmers, I decided to try a more professional approach to PHP programming and debugging than the standard var_dump() and family. As a result,...

• WordPress and Google Analytics external nofollow problem in comment links

  Posted on Friday February 13th, 2009 at 01:41 pm in Software, php, programming, fix, web, link, wordpress, How-To, cms, problem, comment

  Since some WP release, the comment author's link in comments is broken - it has ' external nofollow' attached straight to the href attribute (which breaks the link). I assume that the problem is caused by Google Analytics, namely the "track outgoing ...

• ExpressionEngine contact form (email module) spam vulnerability

  Posted on Monday January 26th, 2009 at 03:50 am in Software, php, programming, web, spam, cms, vulnerability, ee, expressionengine

  Yesterday I had a look at mod.email.php - the Email module of ExpressionEngine CMS. It appears that it is very easy to use ExpressionEngine’s contact form (which uses Email module) to send emails to arbitrary addresses - simply put, send spam u...

• Less than an hour of GoDaddy MySQL5 database downtime today

  Posted on Wednesday March 26th, 2008 at 08:04 am in php, MySQL, downtime, godaddy

  Must have been some maintenance, as I didn’t notice any changes in PHP/MySQL versions since the 7th of March....

• Instructions on installing libmp3lame-enabled ffmpeg on shared linux hosting

  Posted on Wednesday March 12th, 2008 at 01:25 am in php, programming, shared hosting, ffmpeg, *nix, libmp3lame

  Note: this post is based on the comment by Simon, who generously shared his experience. Step-by-step: Download the compiled ffmpeg with libmp3lame support (direct download links: older version ffmpeg.with.lame and newer version ffmpeg.2007-10-28.wit...

• Convert MySQL database from one encoding/collation into another

  Posted on Friday February 8th, 2008 at 01:17 pm in php, programming, MySQL, database, convert, notepad, encoding, utf8, collation, latin1

  Most frequent use: convert database from latin1_swedish to utf8_general_ci. Script copy-pasted from: MySQL and UTF-8. Here’s the script itself: (to copy-paste: first click the “Plain text” header; in FF2, RightClick->”Select a...

• PHP proxy

  Posted on Wednesday September 19th, 2007 at 11:41 am in php, programming, notepad

  PHP proxy is simple but good. I converted it into a proxy-function for one of my projects. Do pay attention to the comments, especially these two: I had issues with this script (and others) returning 0 for the bytesTotal in flash. Basically, the Con...

• How to convert between utf8 and cp-1251 without iconv or mbstring

  Posted on Sunday July 8th, 2007 at 09:32 am in php, programming

  This helped me, maybe it will help you: How to convert between utf8 and cp1251 without iconv In case the original disappears, here's a "backup": PLAIN TEXT PHP: function cp1251_to_utf8($s){     $c209 = chr(209);...