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Network Information Functions In PHP

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

1. string gethostbyaddr ( string $ip_address ) Returns the host name of the Internet host specified by ip_address. 2. string gethostbyname ( string $hostname ) Returns the IP address of the Internet host specified by hostname. 3. array gethostbynamel ( string $hostname ) Returns a list of IP addresses to which the Internet ...

Verifying Credit Card Numbers

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Verifying credit cards in c# is very easy. The last digit of a credit card is a check digit, which is used to check if the card is valid or not. It prevents the keystroke errors when a check card number is entered. In this article you will learn about check ...

Available Domains Finder

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Tired of looking for unregistered domain name? Use this generator written in C# to find available domains, ready to register: using System; using System.Text; using System.Net; class Domains { static Random r = new Random(); static void Main() { ...

PHP - explode(), basename(), pathinfo()

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Getting extension of the file using explode() function function getFileExtension($fileName) { $parts=explode(”.”,$fileName); return $parts[count($parts)-1]; } Getting file name using basename() function echo basename(’/var/website/htdocs/test.php‘); // output test.php echo basename(’/var/website/htdocs/test.php‘,’.php‘); // output test Getting extension of the file using ...

How To Be Annoying Online …

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

1. Make up fake acronyms. Online veterans like to use abbreviations like IMHO (in my humble opinion) or RTFM (read the fucking manual) to show that they're "hep" to the lingo. Make up your own that don't stand for anything (SETO, BARL, CP30), use them liberally, and then refuse to ...

Did You Know How These Names Came About?

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server. Thus, the name Apache Apple Computers ...

Preventing SQL Injection Attacks In PHP

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

SQL Injection is a term for injecting SQL command or query in the address query or as a input in the form of the POST or GET method in the web pages. For example: You have a database of different products, with primary key product_id. To get a product info from database, ...

Validating American Phone Numbers In PHP

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Today, I'd like to show you, a simple method, which validates american phone numbers. American phone numbers have the format of 'XXX-XXX-XXXX' function ValidatePhoneNumber($number) { if ( ereg(’^[2-9]{1}[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$’, $number) ) return true; else return false; } Hope it helps :)

Limiting File Downloading Speed In PHP

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

The following code allows you to limit the speed of downloading files from your server. // file to download $filename = 'file-to-download.zip'; // filename visible for client $visible_name = 'client-file-name.zip'; // setting the download rate limit (=> 36,6 kb/s) $download_rate = 36.6; // checking if file exists if(file_exists($filename) && is_file($filename)) { ...

Generating Unique Strings And Numbers In C#

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

The best way to generate a unique key is to use System.Guid. The only problem with that is, that it generates string representations, which are 36 characters long. In many cases it is an issue, for example when using it in urls. The standard GUID representation looks like this: ae5e6a80-a9e9-4102-a1dd-25697336695e And it's generated ...