I have the need on one of my sites to send emails after generating results from a questionnaire. I came across phpmailer and really liked it, it has some great functionality and is pretty easy to setup. Here is a code example:
While generating a PDF from a dynamically created HTML file, I found that the PDF generation failed as there were non UTF-8 characters in the HTML file. To try and find these characters, I used the strings command with the -n 8 switch to remove any non UTF characters: I was…
I have recently found the need to generate a PDF from the content of a dynamic HTML page. I found a really useful product that allowed me to change the PDF layout via CSS, which allowed me to have a coloured back ground on my page, but have a white…
By default the nagiosadmin account is one you login to the web interface with. To add your own users, you can follow these commands: Add user to the htpasswd file Next edit the Nagios cgi.cfg file to grant the relevant permissions: I wanted to same level of access as nagiosadmin,…
I recently had the need to generate a GUID as part of a PHP based application. To do this I used the following code: Reference: http://guid.us/GUID/PHP
With newer browsers that support HTML5 client side validation, Google Chrome (16+), Mozilla Firefox (8+), and Internet Explorer (10+). You can easily take advantage of the required flag and the input validation. For example, you use the required attribute to require a user to enter a value for an INPUT element. A…
After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10 from 12.04, I found that after installing Squid3 and copying my old squid.conf, that Squid was only listening on IPv6. As I don’t have IPv6 Internet connectivity, this was an issue. You can check what Squid is listening on by performing a netstat and then…
Logging To setup logging in Bind 9 you will need to complete the following: First configure logging in your named.conf.options file Add this at the bottom of the file: Now create a directory for the logs. Unless you edit your /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.named, you will have to use the default directory of…
On the master server install bind server and bind utilities: Once bind has been installed, you need to setup the zones you will be hosting. In this example, domain.com is your domain name, 60.60.20.15 is the IP address or your slave server, and 50.50.20.15 is the IP address of your…
Below are a list of useful commands for managing a postfix mail server: mailq – Use to list items in your mails queues postcat -q MESSAGE_ID – Used to read messages that are in your postfix queue postsuper -d ALL – Delete all queued messages postsuper -d ALL deferred – Delete all messages in…