Dave’s Ramblings

If your web site is listed in the Open Directory Project (ODP, dmoz.org) then Google and MSN will often use the text that the ODP uses to describe your web site in their own search results.

Unfortunately, the descriptions in the Open Directory Project are often outdated and they don't reflect the current status of a web site. That means that your web site might be listed with an outdated description in the search results on Google and MSN.

How to get rid of the ODP description

To tell Google and MSN not to use the ODP description for your web site. You can direct Google and MSN not to use the ODP as a source by adding a new Meta tag to your web pages.

To prevent all search engines (that support the Meta tag) from using the ODP description for the page's description, use the following HTML tag:

To specifically prevent Google from using this information for a page's description, use

or just prevent MSN from using the description, use

Once you add this Meta tag to your pages, it may take some time until a new description of your web page will appear in the search results of Google and MSN, depending on how often your site is spidered.

Yahoo does not support the NOODP tag, since they operate their own directory they do not need to pull the web page descriptions from the ODP.

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How to create a DHTML expandable lists.

Try the following example:

This is available for PHP 3, PHP 4, & PHP 5.

strtoupper -- Make a string uppercase

Description
string strtoupper ( string )

Returns string with all alphabetic characters converted to uppercase.

Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. For instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as umlaut-a (ä) will not be converted.

Example 1. strtoupper() example

Note: This function is binary-safe.

After a recent incident of some piss poor script kiddie defacing one of of my websites I wote a quick and dirty little perl script to both monitor and repair things should it happen again. (thus giving me much more narrow window of server logs to check to find the exploit or whatever allowed it to happen in the first place).

Here's how it works in a nutshell, the site's content is completely dynamic, however the php script to generate it is static..

Pretty simple, and I'm certain my code could be optimized to run a lot cleaner (if you want to submit a cleaner version by all means post it in the comments!) In the interim this works.

compare.pl

This will require two perl modules Time::localtime and File::Copy which are generally installed with the perl bundle by default, if not get them from CPAN or contact your host.

Simply run the script I called compare.pl via cron or whatever means you wish as often as you want to check the page. Personally every 5 mins works out pretty good for me.

Feel free to use the code above as you will, modify it to suit your needs, be it to protect your web pages, files, or whatever. If you find it useful, please send $$$, or just a thanks.

While surfing around I found yet another great resource for vBulletin, great folks with lots of good ideas, and a lot of expertise.

Take a look at vbulletin-faq.com Tell'm dakar referred you