Cool function you can use on your local network to lookup a devices MAC address, (assuming the device is on your network), using PHP.For a big company, either look in the remote locations router, or your core router. // ============================================= // getmac(Device IP, Router, SNMP Read Community) // Michael Requeny -- http:…
if (empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) || $_SERVER['HTTPS'] === 'off') { $protocol = 'http://'; } else { $protocol = 'https://'; } $base_url = $protocol . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);…
If you want to execute system commands from something like PHP, you need a SUID executable which you can call from your PHP scripts. This is such a script. It could be extended to support parameters for the commands you want to execute, but that would be an enormous security…
PHP 5.3 now requires that you either have a timezone set in your php.ini file or that you pass the desired timezone via the date_default_timezone_set() function before calling the date() function. I opened my server’s /etc/php.ini file and searched for timezone. My…
Since I couldn’t just install the php53 packages as they would conflict with the php packages, I had to remove all the existing PHP packages and install the new ones. This meant that I had to take stock of exactly what packages I had to remove and replace. I…