Wonder no more! By embracing the power of the command line you can easily count the lines in every file recursively. Simply execute the following line in the directory of your project (changing .php to the file extension of the files you would like to count the line of):

find . -name ‘*.php’ | xargs wc -l

This will give you a simple breakdown for your project that looks similar to below:

59 ./upload-video.php
15 ./views/settings/configuration_required.php
215 ./views/settings/plugin-settings.php
66 ./views/playlist-management/edit-playlist.php
91 ./views/playlist-management/playlist-management.php
57 ./views/playlist-management/reorder-playlist.php
74 ./views/playlist-management/create-playlist.php
60 ./views/video-management/play-playlist.php
117 ./views/video-management/existing-videos.php
59 ./views/video-management/upload-video.php
44 ./views/video-management/play-video.php
25 ./views/video-management/preview-video.php
58 ./includes/shared.php
29 ./includes/reorder_playlist.php
40 ./includes/plugin_setup.php
100 ./includes/playlist_management.php
1921 ./includes/s3.php
40 ./includes/video_tracking.php
371 ./s3-video.php
3441 total

Sure its not the most detailed or elegant report but its quick and gives you a code count of your project with a minimum of fuss.

Uploading a file to display phpinfo() I was able to ascertain the server was running PHP 5.2.17. But after a bit of searching I found the __DIR__ magic constant was not added to PHP until 5.3.

Ends up if your code is going to run on older installs the best solution is to replace __DIR__ with dirname(__FILE__) this provides the same functionality as using the __DIR__ magic constant but works with versions of PHP from 4.0.2.

The migration went smooth, but by default the Linux Mint Firefox Google search functionality is useless, but luckily it wasn’t too much effort to fix.

First step is to change the home page by choosing “preferences” from the “edit” toolbar and changing the URL on the general tab. This still doesn’t help your results though if you search for something in the search box in the top right corner of the browser. To fix this head to this site, and look down the page until you find the link for your countries Google search. Click the link and it will be added to the search providers in the search box.

To remove the Linux Mint search provider and make your selected plugin default click on the search provider icon on the left hand side of the search box and select “manage search engines”. Select the default and click the remove button, then highlight your chosen provider and simply move to the top of the list with the “move up” button.

Related Posts:

Restore The Refresh Button Placement In Firefox 4

They had created a believable enough looking Paypal form asking clueless punters to enter their credit card details in order to avoid having their account being suspended. After playing around with the form for awhile in Firebug I decided to create a quick script to poison their data by submitting a new fake 16 digit VISA number along with random card holder name, CVV number and expiry date every couple of seconds.

After running this script for half an hour I decided that the script while it did the job would be a lot better if the posted data was coming from an anonymous IP address. Here I will run you through the process of setting up TOR & Polipo on a machine to add an element of anonymity to the data being sent and received by your CURL based script using.

Installation & Configuration
I am going to use Debian 6 in my examples although getting everything working on your distro of choice shouldn’t be too complicated.

apt-get update
apt-get install tor polipo

TOR is very easy to use and should straight run out of the box without any configuration, but if you plan on running Polipo on a different box to the TOR service or want to run the service on a different port to the default 9050 you will need to edit the config file at /etc/tor-tsock.conf.

The Polipo configuration is a little more in-depth with a few changes that will have to be made so that the service can forward incoming requests to TOR. Edit the Polipo config file:

pico /etc/polipo/config

Uncomment line 17 with the “proxyAddress” directive and add the external IP address of your machine, mine is set to:

proxyAddress = “192.168.20.123″

Go down to line 23 uncomment the “allowedClients” directive and edit to suit your needs in my case its:

allowedClients = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.20.0/24

Also edit line 40 with the directive “socksParentProxy” and change it to point at your TOR service mine is:

socksParentProxy = “localhost:9050″

Uncomment line 41 with the “socksProxyType” directive and also uncomment lines 115 & 116 for a bit more security.

Restart the Polipo service so your changes to the configuration file take effect:

/etc/init.d/polipo restart

Proxy Testing

Its now time to test the set-up and see if its working correctly. I find this test is performed easiest using a browser, simply configure your browser to use your Polipo proxy and visit the site whatismyip.com. With any luck you will appear to be coming from a completely different IP to your normal network gateway address.

Protip: If you want to use the proxy for anonymous browsing as well, I recommend using the Foxy Proxy plugin for Firefox as it makes switching between your normal gateway and proxies a breeze.

Configuring CURL
By now you should have a configured and tested proxy service now its just a case of fo configuring your script to use the proxy. To use a proxy from CURL you simply need to add the CURLOPT_PROXY option to your script with the IP address and port of your proxy service i.e

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, ‘http://192.168.20.123:8123′);

Further Reading:
Polipo Homepage
TOR Homepage

Related Reading:
Installing TOR On Ubuntu 8.04

Good news though, I found  some stolen content today and it seems the times have finally changed with Google finally allowing web submitted content take down requests. This move has been a long time overdue in my opinion as a majority of these stolen content sites are making their money through Google’s adsense program. With the old fax and email system it was normally easier just to firewall off the network the offending site was hosted on to stop them scraping your content and move on with life.

Here are some tips on what to do if you suspect someone is stealing your content for their own gains without any attribution:

Identify possible stolen content

A lot of the time you can identify potential content theft from your webstats, if you see an image that is getting called a lot more than the post it appears in chances are its being hotlinked to from elsewhere, looking at the referring URL’s is also a good way to spot possible thieves. Enter your web site URL at Copy Scape and see if it can identify any duplicate content for you.

Get the content taken down

Lookup the IP address of the site using the nslookup command on the offending site e.g

nslookup offendingsite.com

This should return something similar to:

Server:        61.88.88.88
Address:    61.88.88.88#53

Now perform a whois on the IP address returned to find out what network the sites is hosted on. This can be done either on the Linux command line using the whois tool or by using a web based tool. This will give you some information on the network similar to:

#
# Query terms are ambiguous.  The query is assumed to be:
#     “n 74.82.173.217″
#
# Use “?” to get help.
#

#
# The following results may also be obtained via:
# http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=74.82.173.217?showDetails=true&showARIN=true
#

American Registry for Internet Numbers NET74 (NET-74-0-0-0-0) 74.0.0.0 – 74.255.255.255
Take 2 Hosting, Inc. T2H-NET4-2 (NET-74-82-160-0-1) 74.82.160.0 – 74.82.191.255

#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
#
Here we can see Take 2 Hosting is responsible for this IP range, so you can then Google the company name find out how to contact them and report the offending content. If your lucky sometimes the companies whois record will even include an email address for reporting abuse originating from their network making this step easier. You can also do a whois on the domain of the site itself to find the registration details, 9 / 10 times though those is the content theft line of work will use a domain registrar with a private whois service that obscures the registrant’s contact details.

Report infringement to Google

Reporting the offending content to Google is a crucial  step, first because they can remove their site from the search listings to limit the sites traffic and as most content thieves make their money from adsense they can ban their adsense account. To report offending content head to this form and request it removal.

For years I used rely on the ies4linux project to get IE running under Linux project to get Internet Explorer working for me, but unfortunately the project no longer seems that active so a new way had to be found. Luckily I found it can be done through wine tricks which is actually easier than the original method.

So here I will run you through the process of installing Internet Explorer 7 on your Ubuntu box with Wine this way you can still manage some basic testing without having to worry about getting a complete copy of Windows.First up make sure your system has Wine & Winetracks installed:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.2 winetricks

If you look under your applications menu you should now have a Wine subfolder with an entry called “Winetricks” click on this this to get started.

Select the option labelled “Install a Windows DLL or component”.

Then select your chosen version of Internet Explorer to install, be warned though don’t get greedy and try an install them all under the same Wine prefix as they wont play together nicely.

Form here it should be pretty smooth sailing just accept the EULA which you are breaking by installing on Linux and you should be good to go!

At the end it will say you need a reboot just hit the “Restart now” option, it won’t actually reboot your system Wine will simply simulate a reboot for it. After the process completes simply run:

wine ‘C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore’

For a somewhat buggy but “good enough” version of Internet Explorer on your Ubuntu box.

How It Works:
inotify is a Linux subsystem available from the 2.6.13 release of the Linux kernel that monitors changes made to a file system and reports these changes to interested applications. lsyncd is an application written in lua that uses the inotify service to inform it of changes made to monitored directories and then when notified of a change uses rsync to replicate the changes on a remote service.

Getting lsyncd
The lsyncd sourcecode can be downloaded from Google Code and compiled but depending on the distribution your server is running, the install process be even easier as lsyncd is included in the repositories of many popular Linux distros.

Installing On Debian / Ubuntu
While lsyncd is included in both the repositories of Debian and Ubuntu but unfortunately its an outdated version so check what version you are going to get beforehand with the command:

apt-cache show lsyncd

If apt-cache tells you that only one of the 1.x versions are available, I would recommend grabbing one of the 2.x versions from the Debian testing repository instead, the amd64 package can be found here  and one for the i386 architecture here. Then install using the dpkg command i.e

cd /root
wget wget http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lsyncd/lsyncd_2.0.4-1_amd64.deb
apt-get install lua5.1 rsync
dpkg -i lsyncd_2.0.4-1_amd64.deb

CentOS 5 Installation

yum install lsyncd.x86_64

Preparation
First step for getting started with lsync over two hosts is to create a shared SSH key to allow authentication without a password.

ssh-keygen

Now transfer the servers newly generated public key to the second server you are going to mirror content to.

scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@my2ndserver:/tmp

After copying the file the second server add the public key to the ssh authorized_keys file.

cat /tmp/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

While you are logged into the second machine also double check that rsync is installed and install it if it isn’t. Now decide the directory you would like to mirror across your machines. In this example I am just going to keep it simple by starting fresh and creating a new directory in the same location on both of my servers:

mkdir /home/mirror

Quick Test Run
cd /home/mirror
touch test_file
lsyncd -log all -nodaemon -rsyncssh /home/mirror sync@my2ndserver /home/mirror

(Note: Unlike the scp command the target host and directory are given as two separate arguments to lsyncd at the command line)

Which should produce output that looks something similar to:

kernels clocks_per_sec=100
Call: configure()
Inotify: inotify fd = 3
Call: initialize()
10:08:17 Function: Inotify.addWatch(/home/mirror/, (true), (nil), (nil))
10:08:17 Inotify: addwatch(/home/mirror/)->1
10:08:17 Normal: recursive startup rsync: /home/mirror/ -> sync@192.168.20.127:/home/mirror/
10:08:17 Exec: /usr/bin/rsync [--delete] [-r] [-lts] [/home/mirror/] [sync@192.168.20.127:/home/mirror/]
10:08:17 Call: getAlarm()
10:08:17 Debug: getAlarm returns: (false)
10:08:17 Masterloop: going into select (no timeout).
10:08:17 Call: collectProcess()
10:08:17 Delay: collected an event
10:08:17 Normal: Startup of ‘/home/mirror/’ finished.
10:08:17 Normal: Finished Blanket on /home/mirror/ = 0
10:08:17 Delay: Finish of Blanket on /home/mirror/ = 0
10:08:17 Call: cycle()
10:08:17 Function: invokeActions(‘Sync1′,(Timestamp: 17184171.29))
10:08:17 Call: getAlarm()
10:08:17 Debug: getAlarm returns: (false)
10:08:17 Masterloop: going into select (no timeout).

Look in the mirror directory on the second server and with any luck you should see your test file has migrated across from the first server.

Potential Issues
When performing the test run you may get some output that appears similar to the text below:

kernels clocks_per_sec=100
Call: configure()
Inotify: inotify fd = 3
Call: initialize()
10:14:39 Function: Inotify.addWatch(/home/mirror/, (true), (nil), (nil))
10:14:39 Inotify: addwatch(/home/mirror/)->1
10:14:39 Normal: recursive startup rsync: /home/mirror/ -> root@192.168.20.131:/home/mirror/
10:14:39 Exec: /usr/bin/rsync [--delete] [-r] [-lts] [/home/mirror/] [root@192.168.20.131:/home/mirror/]
10:14:39 Call: getAlarm()
10:14:39 Debug: getAlarm returns: (false)
10:14:39 Masterloop: going into select (no timeout).
rsync: on remote machine: -sltre.iLsf: unknown option
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1231) [server=2.6.8]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7]
10:14:39 Call: collectProcess()
10:14:39 Delay: collected an event
10:14:39 Error: Failure on startup of ‘/home/mirror/’.

This tends to happen if you are using an older version of rsync on the 2nd server, no need to stress though I found when creating a config file for lysncd removing the -s rsync option seemed to solve this issue.

Creating A Config File
Fire up your preferred editor and create a new file to store your configuration:

nano /etc/lsyncd.conf

With the contents:

settings = {
   logfile    = “/var/log/lsyncd.log”,
}

sync{default.rsync, source=”/home/mirror”, target=”192.168.20.131:/home/mirror”, rsyncOps=”-rltvu”}

Then start the deamon with the comand:

lsyncd /etc/lsyncd.conf

This will start the daemon in the background, go create a new file in your mirror directory then watch the log with the tail command:

tail -f /var/log/lsyncd.log

With any luck you should be able to see your newly created file getting picked up by lsyncd and mirrored on your second server.

Sun Jul 17 11:03:09 2011 Normal: Calling rsync with filter-list of new/modified files/dirs
/myfile.txt
/
building file list … done
./
myfile.txt

sent 139 bytes  received 48 bytes  374.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
Sun Jul 17 11:03:09 2011 Normal: Finished a list = 0

As you can see the process is not instantaneous with around a 5 – 15 second delay before initiating a transfer and obviously the delay while the file itself transfers across but it is handy for backups and other situations where a small delay is not too much of a concern.

Further Reading:

The lsyncd manual

Now for the blocking part, simply logged in to mail server add added the following to my firewall rules to block their IP range:

/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -s 66.77.65.128/26 -j DROP

Goodbye VocusPR have a nice life spamtards!

Update: VocusPR also own the IP ranges 209.3.118.0/24 and 63.232.227.0/26

Source code

[Mon Jul 16 10:17:31 2011] [error] [client 58.96.56.198] PHP Fatal error:
Uncaught SoapFault exception: [sf:INVALID_LOGIN] INVALID_LOGIN: Invalid
username, user not active in /var/www/myapp/includes/thirdparty/developerforce/soapclient/SforceBaseClient.
php:162

Sometimes you may not have permission to edit the php.ini file or don’t want to effect the error reporting for other applications that live on the same box. This leaves you the option of changing the error reporting setting temporarily either in a .htaccess file or in the script itself. Telling PHP to log errors at runtime is very easy to achieve simply add the line below to your script, be warned though this approach is not an optimal solution in most situations, if there is a parse error in your script the directive will not be run and no errors will be logged.

Source code

ini_set("log_errors", 1);

A better option is to set the logging directive in a .htaccess file if your server is configured to allow their use. Simply open up your .htaccess files or create a new one in the directory of your application if you don’t have one already and add a line with the log_errors directive and save:

Source code

php_value log_errors 1

To get started if you haven’t already load the jQuery library into the head of your page i.e

Source code

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript">

Then create the element you would like to hide, in this example I am just going to hide a simple div when a anchor is clicked.

Source code

<script type="text/javascript">
$("#hide").click(function(){
     $("#some_content").hide();
});
</script>
 
<a href="#" id="hide">Hide</a>
<div id="some_content">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin lacus libero, dapibus eget dictum in, laoreet non massa. Aliquam nec felis tellus, quis ullamcorper erat.
</div>

This works well for hiding the content contained within the element but what if the user accidentally clicked the hide link? They would have to reload the page to be able to see the content again, to avoid this sometimes it is better to use the jQuery toggle method instead allowing the user to change the visibility of the element back and forth.

Source code

<script type="text/javascript">
$("#hide").click(function(){
     $("#some_content").toggle();
});
</script>
 
<a href="#" id="hide">Change visibility</a>
<div id="some_content">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin lacus libero, dapibus eget dictum in, laoreet non massa. Aliquam nec felis tellus, quis ullamcorper erat.
</div>