Life of a software programmer
If you have been working with websites as long as we have, you have probably seen a few shares of odd requests. This is our take on sharing the web development world.
I remember having this issue before and could not find it. But now alas, somehow has pointed it out. Thank you google again.
Here is the code for the radio button itself. We will be using style feature
<input style="height:35px; width:35px; vertical-align: middle;" type="radio" name="foo" value="faa">
And there you go.
Recently transferring to another website, the chinese characters are not working already.
Googling the answer led me to this code, you can convert existing columns one by one, or else you can convert them all at once this way:
mysql> ALTER TABLE nameTable CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4, COLLATE utf8mb4_bin;
mysql> SHOW CREATE TABLE nameTable\G
CREATE TABLE `nameTable` (
`id` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`version` bigint(20) DEFAULT NULL,
`country` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 DEFAULT NULL,
`englishName` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 DEFAULT NULL,
`chinesename` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_bin After running the code made it ok
Thank you for the web
Coffee Cup
Working on programming for so many years, it amazes me that i have really much to learn. This recent issue cropped up out of nowhere.
I decided to disable mod security , which is a bad idea honestly. But true enough, i found the culprit. It seems when you pass a get parameter with special characters, our websites seem to be on high alert against hack attack
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>What i was passing is the name of a client through get command. Yeah i know . It came out as link.php?name=M&M
I changed then parameter to a session id i had given before and it solved the issue. sigh. another lesson learned.
Coffee Cup
Recently one of the websites i was handling started to show strange. When you load the main page, and click with any link or part of the website, it redirects to another page outside of the website.
At first i was puzzled what was causing it. I thought the website has been infultrated or hacked. But it seems everything is still intact.
I separated the main page and tried to dismantle it from there. And you know, what i was the cause, it was a php counter that i got into the website. It seems to be in sleep mode until around 3 years later.
Here are some of the links when you get redirected
https://dexpredict.com/jump/next.php?r=3001031
https://www.smoothsearch.online/install?pubid=2777&productid=30551&clickid=US168345805110000TPHTV422920713914V18
https://clipboxtab.com/install?pubid=2777&productid=30570
Now i know you are dying to know the source. And here it is
https://www.freecounterstat.com
The website gives out a link that you embed in your website
<div id="sfcybjc22f3ctd27lelnzssl4fl8422sw7h"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://counter10.optistats.ovh/private/counter.js?c=ybjc22f3ctd27lelnzssl4fl8422sw7h&down=async" async></script>
<noscript>
<a href="https://www.freecounterstat.com" title="free hit counter">
<img src="https://counter10.optistats.ovh/private/freecounterstat.php?c=ybjc22f3ctd27lelnzssl4fl8422sw7h" border="0" title="free hit counter" alt="free hit counter">
</a>
</noscript>The culprit is the first line of the code
<div id="sfcybjc22f3ctd27lelnzssl4fl8422sw7h"></div>So that’s it. Hope somebody don’t need to learn it the hard way. It’s better you create your own page counter. Either using php & mysql or a txt file to store the current value.
Coffee Cup
If you are using xampp and you encounter this message during creation of a table, i have found that a lot of them pertain to the unit used to reference the field. If the master table used INT (11), when you reference it as a foreign key, you also need to use the same unit INT(11) as well.
In my case it was different. You see, i got this message because the table I used as a foreign key is the table ‘item’ whereas originally it was table ‘item_list’.
So just in case you encounter this one and still have problems, it might be the table name.
Learn and move forward
Coffee Cup
Here is my take on the question, how to refresh the page after 10 seconds
Enjoy
Coffee Cup
<script type="text/javascript">
var timeout = setTimeout("location.reload(true);",10000);
function resetTimeout() {
clearTimeout(timeout);
timeout = setTimeout("location.reload(true);",10000);
}
</script>
Here is the code I used in integrating the fb plugin using iframe into the website.
Please replace the fields that require your actual account.
I also included an html tag .
Enjoy,
Coffee Cup
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button
JavaScript SDK
Step 1: Include the JavaScript SDK on your page once, ideally right after the opening body tag.
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script async defer crossorigin="anonymous" src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v14.0" nonce="F1YcA0n6"></script>
Step 2: Place this code wherever you want the plugin to appear on your page.
<div class="fb-like" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/PoshMotorcycleShop" data-width="200" data-layout="standard" data-action="like" data-size="small" data-share="true"></div>
IFrame
<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPoshMotorcycleShop&width=200&layout=standard&action=like&size=small&share=true&height=35&appId" width="200" height="35" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share"></iframe>
For Android the URL schema is:
fb://page/page_id
For iOS the URL schema is:
fb://page?id=page_id
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button
<html>
<head>
<title>Your Website Title</title>
<!-- You can use open graph tags to customize link previews.
Learn more: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters -->
<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.your-domain.com/your-page.html" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Your Website Title" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Your description" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.your-domain.com/path/image.jpg" />
</head>
<body>
<!-- Load Facebook SDK for JavaScript -->
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script async defer crossorigin="anonymous"
src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1
&version={graph-api-version}
&appId={your-facebook-app-id}
&autoLogAppEvents=1"
nonce="FOKrbAYI">
</script>
<!-- Your like button code -->
<div class="fb-like"
data-href="https://www.your-domain.com/your-page.html"
data-width=""
data-layout="standard"
data-action="like"
data-size="small"
data-share="true">
</div>
</body>
</html>
A common mistake that i always do is to forget the strtotime field
Here is where i usually use it.
Enjoy
Coffee Cup
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//20221117
if ($pldate != '')
{
$pldate = date("m/d/Y", strtotime($pldate));
}
if ($plcheck_date != '')
{
$plcheck_date = date("m/d/Y", strtotime($plcheck_date));
}
?>
<div id="page-wrapper">
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$pltype = $_POST['pltype'];
$pltype = htmlspecialchars( $pltype, ENT_QUOTES);
//20160904
if ($pldate != '')
{
$pldate = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($pldate));
}
if ($plcheck_date != '')
{
$plcheck_date = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($plcheck_date));
$plcheck_date2 = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($plcheck_date));
}
else
{
$plcheck_date2 = NULL;
}
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Using angular, a few of the requests were to make the date into a date picker. I have found the code and wanted to share it here
Enjoy,
Coffee Cup
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.3.min.js" integrity="sha256-a23g1Nt4dtEYOj7bR+vTu7+T8VP13humZFBJNIYoEJo=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-1q8mTJOASx8j1Au+a5WDVnPi2lkFfwwEAa8hDDdjZlpLegxhjVME1fgjWPGmkzs7" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-0mSbJDEHialfmuBBQP6A4Qrprq5OVfW37PRR3j5ELqxss1yVqOtnepnHVP9aJ7xS" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datepicker/1.6.0/js/bootstrap-datepicker.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datepicker/1.6.1/css/bootstrap-datepicker3.min.css">
<script>
$( document ).ready(function() {
$("#from-datepicker").datepicker({
format: 'yyyy-mm-dd'
});
$("#from-datepicker").on("change", function () {
var fromdate = $(this).val();
alert(fromdate);
});
});
</script>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Date</label>
<input type="text" id="from-datepicker"/>
</div>
Hey guys, i have been experimenting with smtp and gmail for sending to clients using php. Found this wonderful article and thought of saving it here on my blog as a keepsafe. Unfortunately, bobcares does like his blogs to be posted anywhere else. Such a shame.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed the research. It helped me through mine.
Leave some comments blow.
Coffee Cup
phpmailer-smtp-error-password-command-failed
Stuck with PHPMailer – SMTP error password command failed? We can help you.
We may come across this error when we try to send mail using phpmailer().
SMTP ERROR: Password command failed: 534-5.7.14
As part of our Server Management Services, we assist our customers with several SMTP queries.
Today, let us see how to fix this error.
This error may occur due to the below reasons:
Moving ahead, let us see the methods our Support Techs employ in order to fix this.
PHP.ini
SendMail.ini
smtp_port should tally with what is written in our php code.
This will work if our SMTP server is Gmail.
In such a case, we have to solve it as the Administrator.
a) Disable access to less secure apps for all users (Recommended)
b) Allow users to manage their access to less secure apps
c) Enforce access to less secure apps for all users (Not Recommended)
Generally, if option a) does not work, it will start to work with the c) option.
This is related to a security feature in WHM/cPanel.
In addition, we can do this via SSH as well:
/scripts/smtpmailgidonly off