Join me in fighting poverty!

Hi, This may look like any other page/email, but it is actually a crucial piece in the fight against extreme poverty. I’m taking action with ONE, to help spread the word about the difference we can all make when we join together as one in the fight against extreme poverty. While there are many great organizations delivering direct assistance in…

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How to automate FTP-ing file to another FTP account?

We will be using shell script to automate the transfer between two FTP accounts. You’ll need shell access to the source FTP account. #!/bin/bash directory=”/home/raisya/public_html” filename=”test.txt” hostname=”ftp.destination.com” username=”dest” password=”qwerty” logfile=”ftpf.log” ftp -uni $hostname <>$logfile quote USER $username quote PASS $password lcd $directory put $filename quit EOF Explanation: directory=”/home/raisya/public_html” Assigning “/home/raisya/public_html” to directory. filename=”test.txt” Assigning “test.txt” to filename. hostname=”ftp.destination.com” Assigning “ftp.destination.com”…

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How to grab BCA USD buy/sell rate with cURL?

This will grab current rate of USD rate from BCA using cURL. function delAttr($tagSource) { $stripAttrib = “‘ (style|class)=\”(.*?)\”‘i”; $tagSource = stripslashes($tagSource); $tagSource = preg_replace($stripAttrib, ”, $tagSource); return $tagSource; } function delTags($source) { $allowedTags=”; $source = strip_tags($source, $allowedTags); return preg_replace(‘/<(.*?)>/ie’, “‘<‘.delAttr(‘\\1′).’>'”, $source); } $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, “http://www.klikbca.com/individual/silver/ind/rates.html”); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,…

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How to create a jump to link

Jump link is used for jumping between part of a page. Wonder how to create a jump link? Ie: jump from the top of the page to the bottom? This will comes handy if you have a very long page. Or jump to top from the bottom of a page? Jump link consist two “HTML a” tags, the link &…

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PHP function to cut string into a specific length

PHP function to cut string into a specific length. Very useful for “Read More” links. function wCut($str, $maxLength = 40) { $strToCount = html_entity_decode($str); if (strlen($strToCount) <= $maxLength) { return $str; } $s2 = substr($strToCount, 0, $maxLength – 3); $s2 .= “…”; return htmlentities($s2); } $str = ‘Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla nunc risus, euismod ac,…

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