http://www.georgehubka.com George Hubka, MSE, PMM, CIO of the Kansas Department of Labor Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:16:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en May sound easy, change the HTML.... but there are time when you cannot directly change the HTML.  For instance if your content is database driven, and you don't want to edit the database source. well, a little PHP code can do the trick $str = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","<a href=\"\\0\">\\0</a>", $str); for example This will take a ... http://www.georgehubka.com/2008/09/14/how-to-convert-a-text-url-into-a-hyperlink/ Ever wonder how to find out what robots/crawlers have visited your site? If you don't have robust log analyzer there is another way. If you are using apache there is a simple way from the command line to figure out how as been visiting. grep robots.txt /etc/httpd/domlogs/bumideas.com|awk -F '"' ... http://www.georgehubka.com/2008/08/24/how-to-find-what-robots-have-visited-my-website/ Here is a ping list I found on www.prelovac.com that I am trying out. http://1470.net/api/ping http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping http://api.feedster.com/ping http://api.moreover.com/ping http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://bblog.com/ping.php http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC http://blogmatcher.com/u.php http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/ http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc http://coreblog.org/ping/ http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc http://ping.blo.gs/ http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php http://ping.bitacoras.com http://ping.feedburner.com http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc http://ping.weblogs.se/ http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php http://ping.myblog.jp http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/ http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2 http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/ http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/ http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2 http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://rpc.britblog.com http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://rpc.wpkeys.com http://topicexchange.com/RPC2 http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2 http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php http://www.blogoon.net/ping/ http://xmlrpc.blogg.de http://xping.pubsub.com/ping we will need to see how this list performs.... http://www.georgehubka.com/2008/08/17/list-of-places-to-ping-a-blog/ Ever find that you need to do a bulk/mass replacement of strings in a file on a linux server?  I ran into a situation where I needed to change a website from using persistent connections to mysql to normal.  This involved changing mysql_pconnect to mysql_connect.  Using grep, There were about ... http://www.georgehubka.com/2008/08/16/how-to-bulk-replace-strings-in-a-file-on-linux/ You may have heard of pinging a blog, but did you know that you can ping a sitemap? Ping it to let the services know that you have some new web pages. Ask.com: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml Google: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml Yahoo: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml Hopefully I can find a couple more. http://www.georgehubka.com/2008/08/11/how-to-ping-a-sitemap/ Looking for a good way to help prevent forum spam on your phpbb forum?  There is a phpbb hack that will check against the major spam lists such as spamcop and spamhaus.   http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/4878   I just installed this one today on a site of mine, we shall see if it works. http://www.georgehubka.com/2008/08/04/blacklist-for-phpbb-forums-to-help-stop-spam/ htaccess has a ton of special operations available in it.  One useful is to override the default file that is served up by the server for a directory. A web server typcally has index.html, index.htm, or something similar as the default Simply locate your .htaccess file and open it for editing ... http://www.georgehubka.com/2008/07/19/changing-the-default-file-via-htaccess/ Alternative for file_get_contents() I was trying to use file_get_contents to work the other day and was getting an error message. Turns out the function was disabled in the php config. There is a way around this which I found on wiki.dreamhost.com. see below for an example. Instead of: < ... http://www.georgehubka.com/2008/07/15/error-with-file_get_contents-is-there-a-work-around/ Interesting site that works in coordination with google to protect your computer from badware.  You can check if your site is listed via this URL http://www.stopbadware.org/home/reportsearch Being listed can cause your site to diverted to a warning page by google and you could be losing traffic as a result.  They even include ... http://www.georgehubka.com/2008/07/10/stopbadware-check-your-site-for-issues/ If you are finding a lot of Long Running Queries and think you have built all the indexes you need.  You might want to try to optimize the database files.  As tables have inserts, the files can become less than optimized. From the mysql manual... shell> mysqlcheck [options] db_name [tables] shell> mysqlcheck [options] ... http://www.georgehubka.com/2008/07/08/how-to-optimize-a-table-or-database-in-mysql/