Reading GET Variable Values Without Knowing The Variable Name / Key
I recently ran into an issue where I needed the values from GET variables, but I did not know what the variables name was. The problem was related to the…
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How To Enable and Configure Apaches Mod Rewrite Module
In order to be able to use RewriteEngine to rewrite URLs you will need to have mod_rewrite installed for Apache. To Install it enter the line of code below into…
Read articleHow To Install And Setup a Linux Crontab Task
First you will need to install cron on the system. Type the following to install cron in CentOS 6. yum install vixie-cron Set cron to start when the system starts…
Read articleExtracting TAR GZ Archives Via Command Line
This tutorial will show you how to zip up a folder as a tar.gz then extract the contents of a tar.gz. First start by going to the directory that contains…
Read articleHow To Search For Files And Directories On A Linux File System
The “find” command can be used to locate files and folders that are stored on your file system. You do not need to be in a sub directory to locate…
Read articleMapping File System Paths To An Apache Alias Url
Apache allows you to map file system paths to alias file paths. This allows you to place files or code in a folder outside of your websites install directory, but…
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How To Display PDO SQL Query Error Information
Often it can be quite hard to debug SQL errors when using PHP since PHP will often throw a generic error that doesn’t really help you diagnose the situation. Other…
Read articleSQL Prepared Statements Using PHP PDO Queres
In this tutorial I am going to go through all the basic SQL commands using PDO prepared statements. The use of prepared statements is 1 very simple way you can…
Read articleInstalling PHPMyAdmin Through Command Line
This will guide will show you what you need to do to install phpmyadmin on CentOS via command line. In order to install phpMyAdmin you need to add a repository…
Read articleHow To Protect a Server Directory From Access Via Browser or URL
There are several ways to protect a directory from URL access but most of these will also block your website from being able to access them. Heres what you do…
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