By using the inspect element feature of Chrome I have identified a string of text that needs to be altered to lower case.
Though the string appears on all the pages in the site, I am not sure which file to edit.
The website is a CMS based on PHP and SQL - I am not so familiar with these programs.
I have searched through the files manually and cannot find the string.
Is there a way to search and identify the file I need using, for example, the inspect element feature on browsers or in FTP tool such as Filezilla?
Check if you have a layout page of any kind in your CMS. If you do, then most probably either in that file, or in the footer include file you will find either the javascript for google analytics, or a js include file for the same.
Try doing a site search for 'UA-34035531-1' (which is your google analytics user key) and see if it returns anything. If you find it, what you need would be two lines under it.
Usually people do not put analytics code in DB, so there is a bigger chance you will find it in one of the files, which most probably is included/embedded in a layout file of some sort, as you need it across all pages in the site
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I'm developing a Wordpress site, which I'm fairly new to. I'm not sure if this is a stupid question or not but I haven't been able to return any decent google results regarding this. Anyway, is there a way to find out what PHP function is generating a piece of HTML code using a browser code inspector like Chrome's? Thanks!
No.
Once the data arrive to the browser, all the PHP code have been processed and you can't know what part of PHP generated which part of the HTML code.
No - not without modifying the php code to enable some kind of debugging. Chrome can only give you information about the received html document on the client side (you). But php code gets parsed server side.
You kind of can:
Download a copy of the theme and plugins folder
Open the page on your site that you want to find the function for.
Find a div/class that is specific to section e.g. <article>
Open a text editor like notepad++ (one that will allow you to search through multiple files at ones)
Use the find feature of chosen text editor and search for the div/class
The result will show you a list of pages where that term is.
Look through those pages for the function you are looking for (it might take a few goes)
The above it is a bit of a roundabout way of doing it, but I think other than looking through each file separately, it is you next best way.
im working on a script for indexing and downloading whole website by user sent url
for example when a user submit a domain like http://example.com then i will copy all links in index page and go for download the its inside links and start from first.....
i do this part with curl and regular expression to download and extract the links
however
some yellow websites are making fake urls for example if you go to http://example.com?page=12 it have some links to http://example.com?page=12&id=10 or http://example.com?page=13 and etc..
this will make a loop and the script cant complete the site downloading
is there any way to detect these kind of pages!?
p.s.: i think google and yahoo and some other search engines face this kind of problem too but their database are clear and on searches thay dont show these kind of data....
Some pages may use GET variables and be perfectly valid (like as you've mentioned here, ?page=12 and ?page=13 may be acceptable). So what I believe you're actually looking for here is a unique page.
It's not possible however to detect these straight from their URL. ?page=12 may point to exactly the same thing as ?page=12&id=1 does; they may not. The only way to detect one of these is to download it, compare the download to pages you've already got, and as a result find out if it really is one you haven't seen yet. If you have seen it before, don't crawl its links.
Minor side note here: Make sure you block websites from a different domain, otherwise you may accidentally start crawling the whole web :)
I wanted to make a little audio captcha in php, so I needed to convert text to speech, but I have two restrictions:
First it should be a php-solution. creating a mp3/ogg would be fine, it could be inserted and played with audio-tags etc.
Second I need to install it on a server only using ftp-access. So, I can't use standard applications to which php would speak.
So, I already investigated some solutions:
Jquery's Jtalk can read text aloud, but it's kind of impractical here as javascripts is always open source => the captcha would be plain in the source-Code.
Google has an Api to speak aloud, too. However, you need to make a call to an extern file with the text as part of the url. so, listening to the outgoing requests will reveil the captcha, too.
I tried to combine my own audio-files using php. I have read in some posts here, that many player supports simply a echo file_get_contents['audio1.ogg'].file_get_contents['audio2.ogg']; solution. However, using the plugin in Firefox, only the first file is played. Downloading and playing in VLC reveals both audio files. I'm also not really happy with this one, even if it would work, as one could just associate the ogg-source with the letter and recognise the captcha by slicing the audio-source-code...
I also thought of loading all letters in audio-tags and playing them as needed, but that will again reveal the captcha in the web's source code.
Lastly I heard of "flite" which promised to be able to do all these things, but I think I got a little mistaken and it needs to get installed directly on the server rather than just putting a few files on an ftp.
So, does anybody know how to make a text to speech solution with only ftp-access and without contacting other websites with the text as part of the url?
Regards,
Julian
So, I have made up a solution combining javascript and php which is pleasing for my taste and could get modified for additional security (like adding noise or having something else than a letter per sound file).
It works like this: you set up a sounds-folder, protected per htaccess, only allowing a captcha.php-script to get files. There is one file per letter you want to display.
The script can also access the captcha via Session, database or protected file and has a pointer to the position that is currently read. Every time it is visited, it gives the audio of the next letter back. This could get done by e.g.
echo file_get_contents('sounds/'.$_SESSION["curaudio"].'.ogg');
Then you only need to insert the audio-element into your html:
<audio hidden id="Sound_captcha">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
And Use javascript to switch to the next letter. For that, use the src-attribute of the audio and give the address of your captcha.php-file. Remember to add a value to prevent Cache:
"captcha.php?"+(new Date()).getTime()
You can call the play()-function of the audio-element to play the file.
To switch to the next requires to either stay at a fixed amount of time per file (very insecure) or to use the ended-event of the audio-element.
Of course, your php-script should at the end also tell when the captcha has been read completely (e.g. to be read with another script where you need a an ajax-request or e.g. the script that produces the sound does it only at every odd access, otherwise status, or the script tells you at the beginning how many reloads you need...)
That is actually all for a basic player, which would also need to get modified to prevent an easy bot-access... however, in my opinion, this is at least as secure as a standard text-captcha and removes a great barrier for people with eye-problems.
I have a site complete with CMS etc all working under one domain name. It turns out for legal reasons one page on this site has to sit on a different domain name. The page is hooked into the same CMS as the rest of the site (built using codeigniter). I don't want to have to do another installation just for this page.
Is there any simple way to display just this page under a different domain name without taking it out of the current application?
Thanks a lot
You should look at either (in order):
an include()with correct php.ini configuration
a file_get_content() and printing the variable into your page
an <iframe src="yoururl"> wich would be the easy peasy but unsafe way
using the on-purprose curllibrary
using fopen() wich theorically allows distant files to be opened, but based on my experience, it's not that reliable
Look at this site, it seems rather exhaustive regarding your problem.
Try including the file
<?php include 'http://www.domain.com/url/to/file/page.html' ?>
I think what you need here is a symlink, which is something I don't know too much about. My understanding is that the path displayed to the user does not in fact have to have anything to do with where the file is actually stored, meaning you can set this up to have a completely different URL while keeping it as part of your original application.
A simpler thing is doing a redirect...it's one line of code in your .htaccess file and you're good to go.
include is a possible solution depending on the format of the remote page (ie, this won't work very well if the remote page has a full DOM structure, and you're trying to include the remote page within the DOM structure of your CMS page), however more information about that remote page would be needed to help determine if include() alone would be enough.
Regardless, if include() does, work, you must make sure allow_url_include in php.ini is enabled, as by default script execution will terminate when encoutering a remote URL include statement.
So, currently I'm organizing my blog based on filename: To create a post I enter the name of the file. As opposed to storing the post in the database, I store them in PHP files. So each time I create a post, A new row in the table is created with the filename and a unique ID. To reference the post (e.g. for comments) I get the name of the current file, then search the entries table for a matching file name. The post ID of the comment matches the ID of that post.
Obviously this isn't the standard way of organizing a blog, but I do it this way for a few reasons:
Clean URL's (even cleaner than mod_rewrite can provide from what I've read)
I always have a hard copy of the post on my machine
Easier to remember the URL of a specific post (kind of a part of clean URL's)
Now I know that the standard way would be storing each post in the database. I know how to do this, but the clean URL's is the main problem. So now to my questions:
Is there anything WRONG with the way I'm doing it now, or could any problems arise from it in the future?
Can the same level of clean URL's that I can get now be achieved with mod_rewrite? If so, links are appreciated
I will be hosting this on a web host. Do only certain web-hosts provide access to the necessary files for mod_rewrite, or is it generally standard on all web-hosts?
Thanks so much guys!
P.S. To be clear, I don't plan on using a blogging engine.
As cletus said, this is similar to Movable Type. There's nothing inherently wrong with storing your data in files.
One thing that comes to mind is: how much are you storing in the files? Just the post content, or does each PHP file contain a copy of the entire design of the page as opposed to using a base template? How difficult would it be to change the design later on? This may or may not be a problem.
What exactly are you looking for in terms of clean URLs? Rewrite rules are quite powerful and flexible. By using mod_rewrite in conjunction with a main PHP file that answers all requests, you can pretty much have any URL format you want, including user-friendly URLs without obscure ID numbers or even file extensions.
Edit:
Here is how it would work with mod_rewrite and a main PHP file that processes requests:
Web server passes all requests (e.g., /my-post-title) to, say, index.php
index.php parses the request path ("my-post-title")
Look up "my-post-title" in the database's "slug" or "friendly name" (whatever you want to call it) column and locates the appropriate row that way
Retrieve the post from the database
Apply a template to the post data
Return the completed page to the client
This is essentially how systems like Drupal and WordPress work.
Also, regarding how Movable Type works, it's been a while since I've used it so I might be wrong, but I believe it stores all posts in the database. When you hit the publish button, it generates plain HTML files by pulling post data from the database and inserting it into a template. This is incredibly efficient when your site is under heavy load - there are no scripts running when a visitor opens up your website, and the server can keep up with heavy visitation when it only needs to serve up static files.
So obviously you've got a lot of options when figuring out how your solution should work. The one you proposed sounds fine, though you might want to give careful consideration to how you'll maintain a large number of posts in individual files, particularly if you want to change the design of the entire site later on. You might want to consider a templating engine like Smarty, and just store post data (no layout tags) in your individual files, for instance. Or just use some basic include() statements in your post files to suck in headers, footers, nav menus, etc.
What you're describing is kind of like how Movable Type works. The issues you'll need to cover are:
Syndication: RSS/Atom;
Sitemap: for Google;
Commenting; and
Tagging and filtering content.
It's not unreasonable not to use a database. If I were to do that I'd be using a templating engine like Smarty that does a better job of caching the results than PHP will out of the box.