Well, I’ve always experienced the generating JavaScript strings with PHP as a PITA. An example, which requires you to take care of the escaping of quotes, is the string: ‘O’Reilly has nice books’. Today i had this brilliant idea to do it as following:
<?php
$str = addslashes("Hello peter's cats");
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>";
echo "alert('$str')";
echo "";
?>
There were days that i didn’t like XSL because it seemed to be impossible to insert a value inside an attribute. For example:
<form action="<xsl:value-of select="/page/action"/>" method="post">
Today i’ve seen that other people also struggle with this issue. So here is the solution:
<form action="{/page/action}" method="post">
</form>
Today i was looking for a way to read passwords from a PHP-CLI script. So it was important the password didn’t appear on the console. I wrote a ttyecho function that uses stty to change the terminal line settings.
Last couple of days i’ve been trying out Simple Test. It allowed me stop stop echo and print_r variables all over the place. The package also has a Scriptable Browser.
At smscity.be you can earn credits each day. Therefor you have to visit their site and click some links. I wrote a smscity.txt script that does this for me.
Now all i had to do is make sure this script is executed each day, so i edited my crontab. It looks like:
############################################################################### # # Author: Tim Van Wassenhove # ############################################################################### # $Id: ############################################################################### @reboot /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 1800 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null http://timvw/cron/blogmarks.php > /dev/null 2>&1 30 02 * * * /usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null http://timvw/cron/smscity.php > /dev/null 2>&1 # * * * * * * # | | | | | | # | | | | | +----- command to be executed # | | | | +------------ day of week (1 - 7) (monday = 1) # | | | +--------------- month (1 - 12) # | | +------------------ day of month (1 - 31) # | +--------------------- hour (0 - 23) # +------------------------------------------- min (0 - 59)
I found this in my inbox on my favorite PHP forum, DevNetwork
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More and more i seem to recieve requests from people that need to manipulate some text files.
And they don’t feel like doing it manually. So here are some examples of how i used the
GNU text utilities:
I want to split the file below into one with the questions and one with the answers. This can be easily done:
Who is the manual.*I am Who am i.*The manual What was HLN's first #1 hit.*Power of love Which News man is the oldest.*Huey About how many months did it take to record Small World.*4 Who wrote Jacob's Ladder.*Bruce Hornsby
cut -d "." -f1 trivia.txt > questions.txt cut -d "*" -f2 trivia.txt > answers.txt
I want to know how many times people have logged in. With last i recieve output like below.
I generate a top10 list:
xabre pts/0 cable-213-132-14 Wed Jul 6 14:41 still logged in veurm pts/16 80.236.195.247 Wed Jul 6 14:28 still logged in timvw pts/6 ip-213-49-86-220 Wed Jul 6 14:21 still logged in ward pts/1 dd5768f62.access Wed Jul 6 14:04 still logged in bokkerij pts/1 91.42-201-80.ads Wed Jul 6 13:57 - 14:00 (00:02) cowke pts/54 215-157.241.81.a Wed Jul 6 13:37 gone - no logout mette pts/51 ip-213-49-112-10 Wed Jul 6 13:36 still logged in esumlu pts/49 176.228-201-80.a Wed Jul 6 13:25 still logged in veurm pts/6 ip-213-49-84-129 Wed Jul 6 13:21 - 14:10 (00:49) trooperz pts/6 160.148-136-217. Wed Jul 6 13:05 - 13:21 (00:15) gunther pts/40 d5153d0d9.access Wed Jul 6 12:28 still logged in timvw pts/34 ip-213-49-86-220 Wed Jul 6 11:02 - 14:21 (03:19)
last | cut -d " " -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
I want to use this file to generate two files, one for small galleries (<10 photos) and one for large
galleries (>= 10 photos)
http://example.com/gallery1|Fishing|18 http://example.com/gallery2|Fishing|5 http://example.com/gallery3|Fishing|6 http://example.com/gallery4|Fishing|5 http://example.com/gallery5|Fishing|35 http://example.com/gallery6|Fishing|2 http://example.com/gallery7|Fishing|1 http://example.com/gallery8|Fishing|9
grep -E "(.*?)\|[0-9]{1}$" galleries.txt > small.txt
grep -vE "(.*?)\|[0-9]{1}$" galleries.txt >large.txt