Anthony Shapley » PHP Archives – Anthony Shapley http://www.anthonyshapley.co.uk Search Engine Optimisation & Pay Per Click Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:46:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Fixing image paths in WordPress after moving hosts http://www.anthonyshapley.co.uk/fixing-image-paths-in-wordpress-after-moving-hosts/ http://www.anthonyshapley.co.uk/fixing-image-paths-in-wordpress-after-moving-hosts/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:46:54 +0000 Anthony http://www.anthonyshapley.co.uk/?p=1698 Just a quick post to let people know that moving hosts had screwed up all the image paths in my Photography section, a simple MySQL Query fixed the problem. Incase anyone else has this problem I used the following Query:

UPDATE `wp_postmeta` SET meta_value = replace(meta_value,”/mounted-storage/home58b/sub007/sc37059-NMKM/anthonyshapley.co.uk/”,”") WHERE `meta_key` = ‘_wp_attached_file’

It merely finds and replaces text where files have been attached. Run it through phpMyAdmin or whatever you use for a quick fix. Obvisously change the path to reflect your website!

Cheers and special thanks to Alex Morrision for bringing this to my attention.

If your interested in wordpress and SEO check out this UK SEO video.

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I’ve really enjoyed writing for wordpress so expect to see some more. I’d highly recommend learning some of it, I would also recommend

You can download the WordPress RSS Aggregator here.

Please feedback if you like/dislike my plugin so I can make further improvements.

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I’ve added it to my sidebar, check it out. Its ideal for personal blogs since writing a post isn’t always practical or neccersary.

Incase your wondering what Twitter is, its a social networking site that allows its users to send updates to followers using no more than 140 characters (much like a text message). You can sign up at www.twitter.com.

Cheers,

]]> http://www.anthonyshapley.co.uk/how-to-add-twitter-to-your-blog/feed/ 2 HTTP Referral Spoofing with PHP and cURL http://www.anthonyshapley.co.uk/http-referral-spoofing-with-php-and-curl/ http://www.anthonyshapley.co.uk/http-referral-spoofing-with-php-and-curl/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:41:18 +0000 Anthony http://www.anthonyshapley.co.uk/?p=545 Well I’m feeling much better, so the other day I was reading a thread on Digital Point, this guy was charging a sh*t load to basically send a shit load of spoofed visitors with a fake Referral header. Therefore I’ve written a very basic one which you could in theory leave running all night. Unlike this other site I will just release the source code and hopefully cause havok.

All you need is a computer running and a list of proxies in the file “good-list.txt”. Put it in a directory (I would keep it private). The source code is as follows:

The code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd“>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” lang=”en”>
<head>
<title>HTTP Referrer Spoofing</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>HTTP Referrer Spoofing</h1>
<p>This will spoof referals in the logs meaning your website will show up as a referrer in the target website statistics.
   It does by using random proxies from a supplied list, to ensure each request is unique.
</p><p>
   To allow for large requests (in the thousands) I’ve added the “Amount before refresh” option, this will meta refresh the page ensuring
   the tool does not timeout.</p>
 
</p>
<form method=”post” action=”index.php”>
 <fieldset>
  <label>Website to appear as referrer:</label>
   <input type=”text” name=”yoursite” value=”<? echo $_REQUEST['yoursite']; ?>”/>
  <label>Target Website:</label>
   <input type=”text” name=”target” value=”<? echo $_REQUEST['target']; ?>”/>
  <label>Times to Refer</label>
   <input type=”text” name=”amount” value=”<? echo $_REQUEST['amount']; ?>”/>
  <label>Amount before refresh</label>
   <?php
   if(empty($_REQUEST['refresh']))
   {
    $refresh = 10;
   }
   ?>
   <input type=”text” name=”refresh” value=”<? echo $refresh; ?>”/>
 </fieldset>
 <input type=”Submit” name=”Submit” value=”Submit”/>
</form>

 <?php
 /*
 
  Random Proxy Selector
 
 */
  function pc_randomint($max = 1)
  { 
   $m = 1000000;
  
  return ((mt_rand(1,$m * $max)-1)/$m);
  }
  function random_proxy()
  {
   $line_number = 0;

   $fh = fopen(‘good-list.txt’,'r’) or die($php_errormsg);
   while (! feof($fh))
   {
    if ($s = fgets($fh,1048576))
    {
     $line_number++;
     if (pc_randomint($line_number) < 1)
     {
        
      $line = $s;
     
     }
    }  
   }
 
   fclose($fh) or die($php_errormsg);
  
   return $line;
  
  }
  
  /*
  
   The fake referral.
  
  */
  function do_fake_referer($yoursite,$target,$amount,$refresh,$done)
  {
   // The site to appear in the stats is $yoursite
   // The target site is $target
   // Amount is the total times the referral should be carried out
   // How often to refresh
   // How many have been done
   echo “<ol>”;
   $counter_refresh = 0;
   while($refresh > $counter_refresh)
   {
    $counter_refresh++;
    $random_proxy = random_proxy();
    
    // create a new cURL resource
    $ch = curl_init();

    // set URL and other appropriate options
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $target);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,7);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $yoursite);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $random_proxy);
    
    $data = curl_exec($ch);

    curl_close($ch);
    
    if(empty($data))
    {

     print “<li>Error, didn’t work this time. Using proxy “.$random_proxy.”.</li>”;
    
     flush();

     
    } else {
     $done++;
     print “<li>Referred “.$done.” times. Using “.$random_proxy.”.</li>”;
     flush();
    }
   }
   echo “</ol>”;
   if($amount > $done)
   {
   echo “<meta http-equiv=\”refresh\” content=\”5;url=index.php?yoursite=”.$yoursite.”&target=”.$target.”&amount=”.$amount.”&refresh=”.$refresh.”&done=”.$done.”&Submit=Submit\”/>”;
   echo “<p>Refreshing in 5 Seconds</p>”; 
   }
   else
   {
   echo “<p>Completed “.$done.” spoofs made.”;
   }
  }
  if($_REQUEST['Submit'])
  {
   if($amount > $done)
   {
    do_fake_referer($_REQUEST['yoursite'],$_REQUEST['target'],$_REQUEST['amount'],$_REQUEST['refresh'],$_REQUEST['done']);
   }
  }
?>
</body>
</html>

Hope this helps, no complaining please.

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Firstly we need to pass in the Sitemap URL. In the example we’re going to use GET since this is the most useful in my opinion.

<?php

$sitemap = $_GET['sitemap'];

// Some simple validation
if (!$myxml=simplexml_load_file($sitemap)){
    echo ‘Unable to Access the Sitemap’;
}
// Loop through XML
foreach($myxml as $url)
{
       $webpage_url = $url->loc;
       // Do your thing here, store it in a database, run it against a function etc.
}
?>

This is ideal for reading a sitemap or RSS feed. Give it a try :)

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We can use the PHP Function “fsockopen” to check that a the port is open on the appropriate hostname (website address).

$urlExists = @fsockopen($siteurl,80);

if($urlExists) {

// do something

} else {

// show an error

}

Simply pass in the Site URL Variable.

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2. ID Division, at the top of every page/program put an ID Division so we know what this section does and who the author is.

3. Comment on each section of code so we understand its objective.

4. Declare your variables.

5. Use meaningful variable names.

6. Use an appropriate prefix for each objects name.

7. Progressively indent your code so its easier to read.

8. Back up!

9. Meet your end objectives.

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