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.htaccess – Denied

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:44:23 +0000

Every wanted to keep everyone out of a directory? Make your .htaccess file this way:

deny from all

Now that entire directory is ‘blocked’ from prying eyes.

How about not allowing any site visitor from parsing a resource? It goes a little like this:

deny from all

Now any file with the extension phpi will not be parsed.

HTACCESS Re-Direct A Single Directory

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:15:24 +0000

This will work to re-direct a single directory to a new location:

# Permanent move
Redirect 301 /directory/ http://newlocation.com

HTACCESS Re-Direct Entire Site to New Location

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:13:34 +0000

You need to re-direct an entire site to a new location? This will do it:

# Permanent move
Redirect 301 / http://newsite.com

HTACCESS re-direct to WWW Version of Site

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:29:01 +0000

.htaccess to redirect dynamically to to the www version of the domain if the non-www version is requested:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z-]+)\.([a-z]{2,6})$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1\.%2/$1 [R=301,L]

Alphabetize an Array

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:13:32 +0000

Reading a directory and putting the files found into an array shouldn’t be such a big deal, right? How about alphabetizing that array?

function read_a_directory( $DIR )
{
if ( is_dir( $DIR ) )
{
if ( $dh = opendir( $DIR ) )
{
while ( ( $file = readdir( $dh ) ) !== false )
{
if ( $file <> ‘.’ && $file <> ‘..’ )
{
$a[] = strtolower( $file ) ;
$b[] = $file ;
}
}
}
}
if ( is_array( $a ) )
{
//sort( $return );
asort( $a ) ;
foreach( $a AS $k => $v )
{
$return[] = $b[$k] ;
}
}
return $return;
}

I found myself down this path only to take care of the upper and lower case names given to some files. Further, some were prefaced with numbers. This little function did the work.

Alternating

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:54:16 +0000

There are dozens of ways to alternate. The most common and visible is the background colour of your tabular data. I use PHP to generate my HTML and the following are my two favourites:

foreach( (array)$results AS $K => $V )

{$alt = ( $alt == ‘odd’ ) ? ‘even’ : ‘odd’ ;}

This works well for in iteration variable. But, what if you’ve got something declared before this loop and you don’t want to ask for that same declaration over and over. ( Lack of speed kills. )

$i = 0 ;

foreach( (array)$results AS $K => $V )

{

$alt = ( eregi( “\.” , ( $i / 2 ) ) ) ? ‘even’ : ‘odd’ ;

$i++;
}

Week attempts at comedy for a very small audience:

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:38:20 +0000

In life being type cast is not always a good thing. In PHP ‘typecasting’ can be a very good thing.

Simple Iteration

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:48:36 +0000

Jamie came across this beauty:

foreach ((array)$myArray as $key => $val) {
 // Whatever code here.
}

Never get caught again without an array.