Penguinsoft

TheNFFL Website

Tomi Lehto — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:20:23 +0000

Penguinsoft had an opportunity to work with Zelo Sport and NFFL to create this site.

To find out more about the game and the league, please visit the site.

MySQL Class for PHP

Tomi Lehto — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:57:50 +0000

This should get you started if you’re looking to connect to MySQL database.

Requires a simple configuration file where you keep all your variables (user/password/etc, like SITEDB_HOSTNAME).

To connect, just drop these lines in the code

require('mysqlClass.php');
$db = new mysqlClass();
$mystuff = $db->getStuff();

mysqlClass source:

class mysqlClass {
	public $_Link;
 
	// Construct: Open SQL
	public function __construct()
	{
		$this->_Link = mysql_connect(SITEDB_HOSTNAME, SITEDB_USERNAME, SITEDB_PASSWORD);
		mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
		$db = mysql_select_db(SITEDB_DATABASE);
		if(!$this->_Link) $this->callError("Server connection error: " . SITEDB_HOSTNAME . ".");
		if(!$db) $this->callError("Database open error: " . SITEDB_DATABASE . ".");
	}
 
	// Destruct: Close SQL
	public function __destruct() {
		mysql_close($this->_Link);
	}
 
        // Update sample
	public function updateStuff($stuff, $id){
		$sql = sprintf("
			UPDATE 		stuff
			SET		stuff = '%s'
			WHERE		id = %d
		",
			mysql_real_escape_string($stuff), mysql_real_escape_string($id)
		);
		$result = mysql_query($sql, $this->_Link);
		if(!$result) $this->callError("Update Error: " . $sql);
	}
 
        //Insert Sample
	public function insertStuff($stuff){
		$sql = sprintf("
			INSERT INTO		stuff
						(stuff)
				VALUES		('%s');
		",
			mysql_real_escape_string($stuff)
		);
		mysql_query($sql) or $this->callError("Insert Error");
		return mysql_insert_id();
	}
 
	// Select Sample
	public function getStuff(){
		$sql = sprintf("
                    SELECT          *
                    FROM            stuff
		");
		$result = mysql_query($sql, $this->_Link);
		if(!$result) $this->callError("Result error: " . $sql);
		$queryresult = array();
		while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) {
			$queryresult[] = $row;
		}
		mysql_free_result($result);
		return $queryresult;
	}
 
        // Show SQL errors
	function callError($details='') {
		echo 'Database Error: ' . $details . ' Error: ' . mysql_error();
	}
}

Penguin Project – Coming September 1, 2010

Tomi Lehto — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:29:14 +0000

Streamlined projects
Improved communication
Increased productivity
Detailed Reports

That’s amazing.. Penguin!

Tomi Lehto — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:32:35 +0000

We’re working overtime to bring you so many spectacular things I don’t know where to start.

Right now busy at work – doing this website. Please give us feedback!

Check out our blog!

Tomi Lehto — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:26:12 +0000

Check out our blog!

Show Errors in PHP

Tomi Lehto — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:39:57 +0000

In the good “old” days when 99% of all websites looked horrible, PHP would by default spit out all errors. If you made a mistake in your code, you’d get gracefully “notified”.

With PHP 5 we arrived to a new era of hidden rebukes – page just loads totally blank by default.

If you like games, you can just start searching the problem from your source code! If you have less than 100k lines you’ve got a good chance to find the issue before dawn.

If not, just drop these lines to the beginning of the script – should be fine…

ini_set('display_errors', '1');
error_reporting(E_ALL);

Bad SSH Logins

Kenneth — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:33:00 +0000

On a linux machine all the failed ssh logins go to a log file in /var/log/btmp. So the question being, How do we see this information in a nice understandable format. We could just use the cat utility like so cat /var/log/btmp. After 10 minutes of your linux box spewing out a bunch of junk to your terminal you’ll understand why this is a bad thing. There is a utility called last it is used to see the people who were last logged in. Type last -10. The output is useful but it isn’t useful for our purposes. We want to see the bad logins not the good logins. It just so happens the last utility accepts a filename parameter. Type last -10 -f /var/log/btmp. Voila! This is exactly what we want to see. You can change the -10 to any number you want and it will show you that number of bad logins. Let’s put this into an alias in our bash profile. You need to navigate to your bash profile, mine is in /root/.bash_profile. Use a text editor like vi or my favorite mc. Add the following line to the script alias bad='last -10 -f /var/log/btmp. Save it, log out and log back in. Now you can just type bad and it will output what you want! Please leave a comment if this helped you, or if you have a better way of doing it.

Bible Module

Tomi Lehto — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:44:00 +0000

Just finished a new module for TheD – Bible Module. This fancy feature allows visitors and users of TheDesperate.com to browse and search the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible. We’ve got some awesome added features planned, so this is just the beginning.

Leave comments and let us know what you think:

TheDesperate.com/bible

Sanitizing Input in Flash

Kenneth — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:17:38 +0000

Let’s say for example you are creating a bulletin board system or some post system from within flash and you would like to restrict the use of any html or special characters. It turns out there is a very simple and elegant way you can strip out or replace any characters you want to.

First we want to declare an array in as3 with all the characters that we don’t want in our string.

var htmlChars:Array = new Array();
 
htmlChars["\\"] = "";
htmlChars["\""] = "";
htmlChars[">"] = "";
htmlChars["<"] = "";

Then all we have to do is to create our function that takes a string as an argument and returns our safe sanitized string.

function sanitizeInput(msg:String):String
{
	for (var htmlChar:Object in htmlChars)
	{
    	     msg = msg.split(htmlChar).join(htmlChars[htmlChar]);
	}
	return msg;
}

Now we can call our function.

var safeString:String = sanitizeInput("

What we can also do is to replace characters in the string. For example…

htmlChars["Bye"] = "CYA";
 
var safeString:String = sanitizeInput("Bye for now\");
// safeString = "CYA for now"

Decorative Photo Art Website Launched

Tomi Lehto — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:55:54 +0000

Photo art by theme with option to purchase. Check out the site and the photos!

Click away to the photo land.