Monthly Archives: April 2019

Securing ISPConfig 3.1 Admin With Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate (Certbot)

11th April 2019Miscellaneouscourier, dovecot, free ssl, ispconfig, ispconfig3.1, let's encrypt, postfix, sslManish

Securing ISPConfig 3.1 Admin With Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate (Certbot)

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/securing-ispconfig-3-with-a-free-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificate/

PHP and MySQL – storing quotes

8th April 2019PHPhtml entities, mysql, quotesManish

The best way to store quotes

htmlentities($campaignsubject, ENT_QUOTES|ENT_SUBSTITUTE|ENT_HTML401);

And to decode it back use

html_entity_decode($rowsCampaigns['content'],ENT_QUOTES|ENT_SUBSTITUTE|ENT_HTML401);

PHP determine masked string

2nd April 2019PHPmasked string, masking, preg_matchManish

Here is a preg_match expression for finding if a string contains a certain set of repeated characters, say like the masking characters in a stored credit number or say a hidden phone number

if(preg_match("/x{5,12}/","THE STRING"))  // if there are 12 consecutive x in the string, starting from position 6