PHP monitor server log
Occasionally you'll be working on a webserver and not have SSH access to it. Below is a simple script I've written that reads a server log (in this case the error log) and outputs a portion of it to a webpage.
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PHP:
$no_lines = 25;
$filename = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/../logs/error.log";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);
$contents [...]
Everyone hates spam, I hate it even more than most people. If you put an email address on a website, as a mailto hyperlink, then it's likely that spam bots will find this address and start sending annoying emails.
One way to get around this is to use a clever technique which I discovered over at [...]
One of the things I always found awkward about Vim is stretching for the ESC key to get out of insert mode.
Here's a little trick that I like to add into my .vimrc file:
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map <space> i
imap <S-space> <esc>
This will let you escape insert mode by pressing shift and space and enter insert mode [...]
I'm not a fan of applications that use sounds effects, one of the first things I do when configuring a new PC is to set the Windows Sound scheme to 'No Sounds'. IE7 has the hugely annoying feature where a click sound is made when you click a link with the middle mouse button (this [...]