table of contents

• quick ref
• quick url's
• quick code snippets - copy & paste friendly
  • linux
  • php
  • .htaccess
  • crontab

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quick info [top]

your IP address:
     quick php test: 

your User-Agent is: (your browser's identification string)


your session ID for this website is: (stored in your browser's cookies)


current server time:
          (that last one is the unix timestamp)

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quick info url's [top]

a great way to get some quick information about your server
can use via your browser, in nightly debugging scripts, or on the command line
if you abuse these links to the point that it affects our server, bandwidth, or anything else, we will ban your ip

general
description	example	url	preview
IP address only:	123.45.678.91		open
Browser's User-Agent Only:	Mozilla/5.0......		open
hello: for testing if a script can get to the outside world (ie. php.ini:allow_url_fopen)	hello		open
date/time functions
Date & Time:	2012-05-18 13:12:04 -07:00		open
php: date("Y-m-d H:i:s P")
Date & Time (system - short):	2012 05 18 13 12 04 PDT		open
php: date("Y m d H i s T"), quick extraction: list($year, $month, $day, $hour, $minute, $second, $timezoneAbbr) = explode(" ", $str); $timezone = 'PST';
Date & Time (system - long):	2012 05 18 13 12 04 Friday 5 138 PDT -07:00 1		open
php: date("Y m d H i s l w z T P I"), quick extraction: list($year, $month, $day, $hour, $minute, $second, $weekdayName, $dayOfWeek, $dayOfYear, $timezoneAbbr, $timzeoneOffset, $isDST) = explode(" ", $str); $timezone = 'PST';
Unix Timestamp: php: time()	1337371924		open
all
All (field names):			open
All (no field names): - easy to process using explode()			open

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quick copy & paste code snippets [top]

linux: [top]	[command line]: or [command line]:
php: [top]	we use this one the most from the command line error logging: error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); //php default ini_set('display_errors',1); //CHANGE TO 0 FOR PRODUCTION SITES ini_set('log_errors',1); //and ensure this is in php.ini: //error_log=/var/log/php_errors.log also try "php -d display_errors=1 -l scriptname.php" if you are having logging/error reporting issues
htaccess: [top]	short: ip restriction: Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow from 38.107.179.227 HTTP user-password restriction: AuthType Basic AuthName "Restricted Area" AuthUserFile /home/example/safedir_nowebaccess/.htpasswd require valid-user (linux command to create password file - might need to specify"/usr/bin/htpasswd") deny all: Order Deny, Allow Deny From All
crontab: [top]	schedule settings order: minute hour month day month week day syntax: * * * * * [user] command [extras] most basic form: * * * * * command how we usually use it: * * * * * root command >>/path/to/log/file.txt 2>&1 disable e-mail: >/dev/null 2>&1 IF the scripts are stable and do not need a long history of debugging logs, or if you just need to get a handle on log file size, use > instead of >> every minute: every 5 minutes: every hour: every other hour: every sunday morning: 1st @12:01am: 1st and 15th @1:00am: run as root (runs php): run as root (runs script itself, useful or "ps -A"):
asp .NET coldfusion python java vbscript oracle mssql etc	Visit www.php.net today! (also check out www.mysql.com if that's not obvious!)

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quick urls for other sites and tools [top]

misc tools: [top]

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