Like I have said before, this blog really doesn’t have anything to do about what I am talking about here, but he has some salient points.

A good site showing an example of using object orient modules.

Site describes the use of classes and functions. Also talks about global variables.

There are many ways to add a cron job that calls a php script - and it really depends on how your server is setup.

Here’s some example setups:

/usr/local/bin/php /home/user/public_html/script.php

lynx -dump http://www.example.com/script.php

/usr/bin/curl http://www.example.com/script.php

I found out about the last way of loading a cron with a php script because the lynx version was giving me permission errors and the /usr/local/bin/php method just wouldn’t work.

SSH

Good stuff here, including:

starting - /etc/init.d/ssh start

secure file copy - scp

SSH without passwords

and more.

Using php_value auto_prepend_file in .htaccess and output buffering (ob_start) to highlight search terms.

Instructions for installing mytop along with additional perl modules.

I had an error message,

Cannot connect to MySQL server. Please check the:

* database you specified “test” (default is “test”)
* username you specified “root” (default is “root”)
* password you specified “” (default is “”)
* hostname you specified “localhost” (default is “localhost”)
* port you specified “3306″ (default is 3306)
* socket you specified “” (default is “”)

The options my be specified on the command-line or in a ~/.mytop
config file. See the manual (perldoc mytop) for details.

Here’s the exact error from DBI. It might help you debug:

Unknown database ‘test’

Once I specified a database, any database on the server, mytop worked as expected.  Here’s the command I used, mytop -d user_database

Cool idea for making a name squeeze page interactive … GatewayMagic.

Grab some information about your visitor like name, email and what they are most interested in. Then, send them to the next page that is tailored to their response. Nice!