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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Execute Windows Commands from PHP without blocking
When researching for my live error reporting posting, I tried running some exec and passthru command tests by starting up calc.exe. While they executed the command correctly, I got some weird results in my script … which I suppose now … Continue reading
Live Combined Error Reporting for Apache and PHP during Development
So many times during development, I’ve missed little PHP errors because they were 1) on a processing page that was redirected or 2) output inside of a html tag – and rendered invisible. From time to time, I have to … Continue reading
A Better Understanding of Error Reporting in PHP
While working on a website for (“the triangle”), I came to a page running locally that just stopped – blank. This particular website was not using output buffering – so there is no excuse for a blank page. For whatever … Continue reading
Two New useful external tools for Eclipse
In my posting about Integrating PHPDocumentor into Eclipse, I touched on External Tools a bit. The combination of external batch files, the external tools extra options and the console has made my life easier. I’m using two new additional batch … Continue reading
Eclipse Integration with Tortoise SVN
I generally don’t like to be tied to a specific IDE when developing. Additionally, I like to have my choice in using tools to manage my source control (tortoisesvn, svn command line, etc). I just think this is the open-source … Continue reading
Show the right files in PHP Explorer
After I installed Eclipse PDT, I had two project navigators. I closed the native one and kept open the PHP Explorer. PHP Explorer showed my php, css, js, etc, files. It also puts a plus sign to the left of … Continue reading
The anatomy of a phishing attack – advanced technique
So many phishing attempts lately are just purely pathetic – easy to guess and figure out, mis spelling and grammar issues and just poorly fashioned websites. Although these will work on the novice web surfer, can a clever criminal actually … Continue reading
The top 17 ways to help eliminate the Phishing threat
The following is the result of a research project I had done about phishing. Its some best practices and suggestions based upon information from leading security professionals such as white hat security, McAfee, etc. A combination of e-mail security, authentication … Continue reading
Helpful strtotime reminders
Today, Todd [one of the consultants that ("the triangle") uses] called me up to share a bit of a reminder and also tell me about an issue in the code that was in one of our older modules. There was … Continue reading
Spell Checking in Eclipse PDT
Although I’d like to pretend that my side jobs always are pure programming, but alas, not the case. There are times when the users send word docs to me and I have to convert them to html. Now, even these … Continue reading