I’ve been working, gradually, on a project using an sqlite3 database (for its convenience) and found myself missing the clean elegance of wpdb… so I implemented it. It was actually really easy to do, and I figured I would throw it up here for anyone else wishing to use it. The functionality that I build [...]
I’ve always wanted to write my own simple shell in php. Call me a glutin for punishment, but it seems like something that a lot of people could use to be able to do… If your web app had a command line interface for various things… like looking up stats, or users, or suspending naughty [...]
We use dirname() a lot in php to make relative paths work from multiple locations like so. The advantages are many: require dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ) . ‘/required-file.php’; $data = file_get_contents( dirname(__FILE__).’/data/info.dat’); But in bash we often dont do the same thing, we settle for the old standby “../”. Which is a shame because [...]
Andy bogged a piece of advice that I have him which I got from Barry… and if you want to know how to get the true absolute path to the real location of the current script is from inside of it (like phps realpath and __FILE__) I suggest you check it out
Lets say you have a relatively complex php web application, like wordpress. You have it running under apache (which is common.) You have good control of your site via .htaccess (which is common — permalinks and all.) And something happens to your blog (e.g. someone is exploiting some unknown vulnerability to compromise your content), which [...]
ack (http://petdance.com/ack/), love it (thanks nikolay)
It’s pretty common in most scripting languages which center around the command line (bash, perl, etc) to find information on colorizing your shell script output, mainly because those languages are tied very tightly to command line use. It can be difficult, however, to find information about adding this same nice feature to a php cli [...]
We’ve been asked how we manage serving files from Amazons very cool S3 service at WordPress.com… This is how. (covering a requested image already stored on S3, not the upload -> s3 process) A request comes into pound for a file. Pound hashes the hostname (via a custom patch which we have not, but may, [...]
I’d be glad for anyone who cares to look to read and comment on these functions. The idea is to be able to abort and retry, or fail, an operation on a slow link. I’ll work on fgets replacements tomorrow…
Most times when people write command line scripts they just let the output flow down the screen as a status indicator, or just figure “it’s done when it’s done” But sometimes it would be nice to have a simple clean status indicator, allowing you to monitor progress and gauge time-to-completion. This is actually very easy [...]