http://www.mohsinsumar.com Zend Certified Engineer, PHP Professional, Designer & Web Developer Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:07:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In 2003, I wrote a tutorial on how to build your own eCards service using PHP/MySQL. It was written and published on Flash-dB Forum. If you have any queries, please direct them to Flash dB - Flash eCards Forum. The bad news is that the tutorial went off-air and I am ... http://www.mohsinsumar.com/tutorials/php-mysql-ecards-tutorial/ I came up with my first original quote in one of my email correspondences today, and I would like to share it with you. "You do not get great handwriting if you do not start scribbling" - By Mohsin Sumar http://www.mohsinsumar.com/words-of-wisdom/you-do-not-get-a-great-handwriting-if-you-do-not-start-scribbling/ [caption id="attachment_101" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Mohsin handing T-Shirt of "Extreme #1" to the Goalkeeper of Veterani Sports Club - Gezaulole, Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam on 21st May 2010."][/caption] Earlier this month, on the 21st May 2010 - Extreme Web Technologies sponsored a local football club called Veterani Sports Club in Gezaulole, Kigamboni, ... http://www.mohsinsumar.com/extreme-web-technologies/sponsors-of-veterani-sports-club-gezaulole/ It's been a while since I blogged last, and even longer since I cleaned and free up some disk space on my laptop. While moving and deleting data last week, I used disk cleanup utility. I cleared couple of GBs using this utility, including Hibernation File Cleaner. Obviously, I had ... http://www.mohsinsumar.com/general/hibernate-does-not-work-anymore-in-microsoft-vista/ If you've stumbled across this post, then you've recently become a victim of the most famous way of uploading a malicious script to a website - PHP file uploads. Many websites and web applications that are developed using PHP & MySQL allow users to upload files, photos and documents to the ... http://www.mohsinsumar.com/php/securing-php-application-from-malicious-scripts/ Using the following command in SSH, you will be able to extract files from your tar file. tar -xf file.tar http://www.mohsinsumar.com/ssh/how-do-i-extract-a-tar-file/ Use the following command if you want to create a tar and compress a file (or folder). tar -czf /path/to/save/file.tar folder_or_file_name The options used in the above command are outlined below for your understanding. -c = create -z = compress a file -f = use the file mentioned instead of tape drive http://www.mohsinsumar.com/ssh/how-to-tar-a-file-using-ssh/ "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." - Albert Einstein http://www.mohsinsumar.com/words-of-wisdom/a-man-should-look-for-what-is-and-not-for-what-he-thinks-should-be/ If your SSH ls command output is really long, and cannot be viewed on screen - you can use the following command to part of it with a more command to continue down the list. ls [options here] | more Example:- ls -l | more http://www.mohsinsumar.com/ssh/ssh-ls-pagewise-output/ I was born around this time around 22 years ago. Thank you to everybody for your thoughtful birthday wishes via phone call, text message, email and facebook! http://www.mohsinsumar.com/general/my-22nd-birthday/