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Thursday, 30 April 2020

Change text in an HTML document and passing php variable to javascript.

To change text in an html document or web page, we can use javascript.

If we were using php to echo the html then unfortunately, once the echo is done, the html is created so to speak and it's no longer possible to change or update it.

But, we can use javascript, as per the example below, where the 1st line could be high up on the page and would display old text and once the script below runs, this old text would be changed to new text.

This can of course be done by embedding php echo statements to include variables, which is also a way of passing a variable from php to javascript.



<p align="left" id="id1">old text</p>


<script>
document.getElementById("id1").innerHTML = "new text";
</script>

OR

<script>
document.getElementById("dt").innerHTML = "<?php echo $someVar ?>";
</script>

Half adder and 1 bit full bit adder

Tuesday, 28 April 2020

basic web page redirect or reload

The following is a basic web page redirect;

<html>
  <head>
    <meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="3; URL=index.html">
  </head>
</html>

 
The following is a basic javascript equivalent;
 
<script>
setTimeout(function () 
{
   // 5 seconds
   window.location.href= 'index.html';
}, 5000);
</script>
 
 
 
To reload a page without getting an alert, we can do the following;
 
<script>
    function reload_page()
    {
        window.location = window.location.href;
    }
</script>
 
then call it by;
 
<script type="text/javascript">
     reload_page();
</script>';
 
or from php;
 
echo '<script type="text/javascript">'.'reload_page();'.'</script>';


To call the function after some time, for example, to refresh the page in 5 seconds, we can do the following to call the reload_page function detailed above;


<script>
setTimeout(reload_page,5000);
</script>


Sign Magnitude, Two's compliment binary representations

The following table shows the difference between Sign Magnitude and Two's compliment

As an additional note, two's compliment involves inverting and adding 1.
So if we look at the table below for 0100 which is 4, the two's compliment representation of -4 would be 1100

How do we get there, well we first invert from 0100 to 1011 and then add 1 to give 1100

To go the other way;
If we have -3 which is 1101 we invert to give 0010 and add 1 to give 0011 which is of course 3

Saturday, 18 April 2020

Add a Right Click action to any Application

The following is an automator screenshot of how to add a Right Click action to highlighted text in any application on a Mac.

Thursday, 16 April 2020

Cyclomatic Complexity

Cyclomatic Complexity


Cyclomatic Complexity is the number of independent paths through code and there are many websites that do a better job of explaining it than I can, but...

Wednesday, 8 April 2020

To test a fail2ban filter using fail2ban-regex

We can test any fail2ban filters by using the following:

fail2ban-regex <logfile> <filter>

Example:

fail2ban /var/log/apache/error_log /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/apache-noscripts.conf


Tuesday, 7 April 2020

To block, unblock or check IP addresses with iptables in Linux

To block or check IP addresses with iptables

The format to block and IP address is as follows:
iptables -A INPUT -s BAN-IP-ADDRESS -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -s BAN-IP-ADDRESS/MASK -j DROP

To block an IP address, use the following;
iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.254.100 -j DROP

To view all blocked IP addresses, do;
iptables -L INPUT -v -n
OR
iptables -L INPUT -v -n | less
OR (especially if blocked with fail2ban) **
iptables -L -n --line

To check for a specific IP address, do;
iptables -L INPUT -v -n | grep "192.168.254.100"

To unblock an IP address, do;
iptables -D INPUT -s 192.168.254.100 -j DROP

Alternatively to unblock an entry blocked with fail2ban (see ** above) do;
iptables -L -n --line
then find the IP address you wish to unban.
then do
iptables -D ruleName n
where ruleName is the rule name  associated with the banned IP
and n is the number associated with the banned IP

ref: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-howto-check-ip-blocked-against-iptables/



Set and retrieve cookies with php

The format for setting a cookie in php is as follows:

setcookie(name, value, expire, path, domain, security);

I only use the name, value and expire, where expire is in seconds, so;
time() + 24*60*60 is 1 day.