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Month: October 2006

Written by 31/10/2006

PHP Already Have My Function Listed Here

PHP Article

I’ve written a function to fetch a file from remote server and store it into a string here: https://dev.sandalian.com/baca/4/get-content-of-url-into-string-variable.htm. Then today I realized that PHP already have that function! 😀 The function is called get_file_contents(). So, my function is officially deprecated now 😀

Written by 30/10/2006

Rename Files Into All Lowercase

PHP Article

I wrote this script when my Windows 98 screwed up my filename. It was index.php and changed into Index.php, in a big number of files within a directory 🙁 < ?php // I name it caser.php $handle = opendir($argv[1]); while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {

Written by 20/10/2006

Happy Ied Mubarak – Blog Status: Iddle

Technical Stuffs Article

Today is my last working day of this month. Me and all moslem around the world are gonna celebrate our holly day, Ied al Mubarak, next week. And all office in this country, will stop their public service for 3 days upto one week, even more. I will visit my parent’s house in a little

Written by 19/10/2006

Copy Remote File Into Local Directory

PHP Article

Here is a little function used to copy file from remote directory (web server) into our local directory. < ?php /* This function used to copy remote file into local disk Example: copyFile("https://test-server.com/file/movie.mpg","myfolder/"); */ function copyFile($url,$dirname){ @$file = fopen ($url, "rb"); if (!$file) { echo "Failed to copy $url !"; return false; } else {

Written by 19/10/2006

Dealing With Google Sitemap

Technical Stuffs Article

When I use Webmaster Tools from Google, it requires sitemap of my site. There are several formats allowed, easiest one is RSS 2.0 format. I already have it as my blog feeds. Then I realize that it need to be in the root directory, while my blog have the XML file within “feeds/” directory. Changing

Written by 18/10/2006

Detecting WAP/WML or Web/HTML Browser

WML-WAP Article

I use this little script to detect what browser is being used by the visitor. Is it web browser or WAP browser. Yes, I want my domain accessible by two kind of browser and redirect them to the specific page (ie. web or WAP). So if visitor open my homepage using web browser (Opera, Firefox,

Written by 17/10/2006

Paralel Process In PHP

PHP Article

In my own experience, paralelizing process in PHP is alot efficient. Not saving your time, but it will save memory usage. I use paralel method when working with several task at once. For example, fetching several RSS feeds. Let’s give it a try. Sample case, we must fetch data from 5 (five) rss feeds. <

Written by 17/10/2006

Random Text For Signature Used in Forum/Bulettin Board

PHP Article

There are so many signature generator for forum/bulettin board. And surely we can try to create our own, fully personalized as follow: I’ve written this script at September 2004, and now time to share the code. First, create a text file. Name it quote.txt and write down your text/quotes. One sentence per line. MAGIC QUOTES

Written by 16/10/2006

Get Title From HTML File

PHP Article

This little snippet will show you how to get string contain the title of an HTML file that located between and tag. First, create a string containing the HTML file: < ?php $a = fopen("html_file.html","r"); $string = fread($a,1024); ?> Why we just read 1024 bytes? Because the &lt;title&gt; tag mostly located at the top part,

Written by 13/10/2006

Succesfully Recovered

Blog News Article

Yeah, finally this site get its functionallity back. Just hope it might help many people who loves computer as I do ^_*

Written by 10/10/2006

Get Content of URL Into String/Variable

PHP Article

Here is a simple code to get a content of URL (HTML file) and put it into a variable/string. This is useful for content grabbing, for example. < ?php function getContentOfURL($url){ $file = fopen($url, "r"); if($file){ while (!feof ($file)) { $line .= fread ($file, 1024*50); } return $line; } } ?> Usage: < ?php $string

Written by 09/10/2006

Script Repository

Blog News Article

Beside writing code and description here in this blog, I also posted the script in a directory. You can easily view my scripts at my scripts repository. You can see if my repository is updated by looking at the right panel after the “Previous Post” section. Hope it will help many people ^_*

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