Here's a post that I wrote to a forum that I very occasionally contribute to - I thought it was worth sharing the words a little wider as it help give a bit of a deeper insight into the world of internet moderation, security, rules and advise for the majority of people who are users and don't really ....
There's nothing like trying out the services of a business to learn about how that business works, and how it looks after its customers. And it's especially important for the owners of a business and their customer facing staff to know how they, their colleagues,and their service look to their users ....
"Getting a bit technical". So says my closest friend, and she's pretty technical at times. "A lot of PHP and Python". Yes, there has been a lot of PHP and Python for the last couple of weeks, so now for something completely different.
Yesterday I was recalling how we had a school visit about 12 ....
A lion in a cage shouldn't be a danger - but release the lion from the cage and you could be at risk.
An include file that's pulled in by a PHP script shouldn't be a danger if it's used only from within that PHP script, but if it has its own URL the it could be released like the lion, and it could ....
I'm a great believer in the internet offering an ability to communicate - a freedom - and on that basis the various web sites that I run start off with an "allow all" premise. Even if someone's views don't match mine ... if they want to express them on a board such as opentalk or save the train, or ....
Have you written a web site using plain old HTML (perhaps with style sheets and images) and then extended it to more interactive content using a little PHP, JSP, Perl, cgi or similar? Are you keeping the data associated with your PHP - your on line programs - in plain text files? If you are, tha ....
If you want to check the syntax of your PHP page without actually running it, the -l option (that's lower case letter L) to PHP at the command line will do that for you:
wellho@lightning:~/public_html$ php -l index.php
No syntax errors detected in index.html
wellho@lightning:~/public_html$
Remembe ....
Domain name registration is something that has dropped in price over the years and rightly so - it's very much a service where the volume of customers has dramatically increased and so the bulk savings of automatic processing allow for keener pricing than there was in the past. Netcraft tell us tha ....
I can display all the entries in a table on a single page if there are 10 or 20 of them. When I get up to about 30 or 40 entries, it's getting out of hand ... and with hundreds of entries, I REALLY need a paging system.
Quite commonly, I see requests for "paging systems" to meet such requirements a ....
As I drove south from Scotland this morning, I was listening to the radio; an increasingly rare chance to catch up with the in depth news and review programs on Radio 4 that provide a more thorough background to history and events than I feel I get from the snippets of TV that I watch. A program of ....