This is surprisingly simple if you don’t want to mess around with multiple versions and just switch to 7.4. Run as root: # dnf -y module reset php# dnf -y module install php:7.4 Then in my installation a few pecl modules needed to be reinstalled (zip needs the extra step below): # pecl uninstall imagick […]

Just a quick one – I needed a script to convert a table to a csv, so this is what I came up with. See the annotations for notes: //html table is in variable $report $report = str_replace(array(“\n”, “\r”), “”, $report); //remove existing line breaks $report = str_replace(‘”‘, ‘\”‘, $report); //escape existing quote marks $csv_lines […]

This is a quick script to process email bounces, for example from a mailing list so that users can be flagged up or unsubscribed when they have too many failures. The actual bounce identification will be done by Chris Fortune’s Bounce Handler, which you can download from: http://anti-spam-man.com/php_bouncehandler/ We require 3 files from that package: […]

I wanted to create a simple drop-in script to add brute-force attempt blocking by IP address to my PHP/MySQL login scripts. It should be pretty simple to use. It needs a database to run off, you enter the database values and call the script (see usage) before login and on login failure (also before login […]

IP Failover (proof of concept) Essentially the idea is that if your primary web server goes down, your backup server automatically takes over (failover). When your primary server is back online, it takes over again (failback). It sounds simple, but it can be very complicated and expensive to eliminate all the single points of failure […]

I couldn’t find a function online that copies folders recursively in PHP and actually works, so I wrote my own: function recursiveCopy($src, $dest) { if (is_dir($src)) $dir = opendir($src); while ($file = readdir($dir)) { if ($file != ‘.’ && $file != ‘..’) { if (!is_dir($src.’/’.$file)) copy($src.’/’.$file, $dest.’/’.$file); else { @mkdir($dest.’/’.$file, 0750); recursiveCopy($src.’/’.$file, $dest.’/’.$file); } //else […]

After my previous post, Javascript (JQuery): Social networking feeds all in one place, Facebook went and added authentication to the feed retrieval. After much head-scratching, this is how to enable the Facebook feed under the new OAuth system. You need an access token to get to the data, so what we are going to do […]

The first step is to vanilla install PHP 5.2 (to handle any dependency issues) and then recompile it with the t1lib option. So enable the testing repo of CentOS 5. Change to root user first, then create the repo: su – vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Testing.repo Enter insert mode (hit i) and paste the following into the new […]