One of the best things I love Apache web server is that it instantly enables you to share files and resources via plain web directory index listing without having to spend time making any fancy web pages to serve them. However, there are times when you need to hide things out. To disable web directory …
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Update: Here’s the latest coupon code of Godaddy – $1.49 / year .com A quick short post for my fellow readers. If you have quite some domains with GoDaddy, you’d know that ever since they raised the price for .com by $0.5, to find a $6.99 .com GoDaddy domain coupon is rather difficult now. Most …
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To successfully run a query with text data containing single quotes ‘ as well as other SQL reserved punctuations, AND to prevent SQL injections, you will always want to escape the text values before using them in a SQL query. In PHP 4.0, we are stuck with mysql_real_escape_string. With PHP 5.0, mysqli:prepare and mysqli::real_escape_string are …
SQL injection is a typical code injection attack that exploits weaknesses of application in the database layer. SQL injection vulnerability is created when one scripting or programming language is embedded in or used as input in another with failure to verify the legality or filter for potential dangerous codes. SQL injections are possible when input …
As Web becomes one of the most fundamental means of communication and information delivery nowadays, and as its usage reaches population level in regards to that when the televisions prevailed, the protection of it has never been so critical. SANS institute in association with US government and various other weighty contributors, most of whom IT …
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Bad News: Partners program manager of Rackspace Cloud, Kenard Horsley informed me via email that they have made the decision to end the $25 discount for Cloud Sites on 18th, March (2010) and instead focus on Cloud Servers promotion. The promo code (Promo Code ID=134) will be effectively invalidated by then. The Promo or Referral …
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There’s a pure css drop down menu named SuckerFish published at ALA. Really straightforwardly clean code and simple drop menu script, however it might be friendlier for developers if it’s combined with the li:hover hack for IE6. The HTML: <ul id=”nav”> <li><a href=”#”>bodycare</a> <ul> <li><a href=”#”>lotions</a></li> <li><a href=”#”>creams</a></li> <li><a href=”#”>balms</a></li> <li><a href=”#”>butters</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a …
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IE 6 and lower versions of IE only implemented :hover for tag a. As per CSS 2.1 specification, all HTML tags / elements have :hover state so that when mouse pointer hovers over, different styles can be applied to them. li:hover is one of the frequent reasons why you need this hack. First, you have …
Pure HTML is static text files with dead content that want everything but to change. However by the help of a service scripting language such as PHP, HTML can be dynamic and changes every time you make a different request to the server. PHP is born with HTML rendering in mind. So it’s plain easy …
The last time I end up with hundreds of HTML files with PHP codes dispersed in them. Tried to rename them all to .php but failed. To use them and enable the php code within, I have to run the HTML files as PHP. How Apache web server works in resolving .php requests Apache gets …
With database development, a perfect data structure paradigm is that data records should all be uniquely distinguishable from each other. Therefore when you are designing and creating data fields or columns for an entity, you must always have an identifying column or field for each and every of the records stored in a table, enabling …
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It’s sometimes cumbersome to handle uploaded files — checking if it is really uploaded, moving and renaming. Why not writing all these chores into a class and make our own file upload script? First we are going to create a simple class to handle uploaded files and move them to some place we designate for …
PHP: File Upload Script (HTML Form + PHP Handler Class) Read More »
While there are a lot of methods for you to resize images with php, we will be using extension gd this time. Make sure you or your hosting company has installed it in the php distribution by running <?php if (extension_loaded(‘gd’)) { // return true if the extension’s loaded. echo ‘Installed.’; } else { if …
Well dismiss me if I’m a little too late for this but just now I encountered this client who needs to update a wordpress theme, the comments section or comments.php to be precise, to accommodate some of the new features introduced in WordPress 2.7, comments threading and comments paging. The easy way — for new …
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You had the <input type=”file” /> in place, however it just doesn’t seem to be uploading at all at the client side. After choosing a rather big file, the form submission and page reload finish in seconds, what’s wrong? Well, it’s almost certain that you have forgotten something. Try adding property enctype to <form>: <form …
Creating a rather simple custom CMS on my client’s server, everything seems ok until I start testing out some of my ready made proprietary PHP classes. The problem is that I make things in PHP5 and all the classes are in PHP5 format. Quickly searched and scanned through some old tutorials for PHP4 about creating …
Scratching your head for a mystic error in your SQL query? No matter how you look into it, it just seems right and should by the God’s name work as you have wished. But it doesn’t and keeps pumping out annoying SQL syntax errors. Don’t panic, I have a few tips on this that might …
PayPal is by far the most popular international merchant service. The newest update of their policies is carried out through the end of last year, 2008, and a lot of provisions are effective ever since. Some of the key points include: You may not use PayPal service for prohibited activities involving gambling, gaming and/or any …
Alexa, the traffic company under Amazon is now releasing the top sites ranking data free. Updated daily, it’s currently the most authoritative top sites ranking data by traffic you can find on the Web. Download the list here. It presents the 1 million sites most visited around the globe. Other than Alexa, you can also …
Privacy policy? You don’t have privacy anyway. Well that’s just a saying about how you can never be private on Internet as it’s always possible to digg out who you are in real life by bits and pieces you left about yourself everywhere on the Web. Reverse domain tool comes handy when you want to …
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