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PHP: List All Devices on the Network (For Linksys Routers Running Tomato)

David Kryzaniak — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 04:20:52 +0000

For a personal project I'm working on, I need to monitor all the devices currently on my home network. Getting PHP to poll the network for devices is hard... I believe there is a way to poll devices in perl, but I was looking for something easier. The quickest solution I was able to come up with is to screenscrap my router's "Device List" page. My router is a Linksys E2000 (For all the nerds out there, its a Broadcom BCM4716 chip rev 1 pkg 9, overclocked to a blazin' 356MHz). It's currently running Tomato Version 1.28.

[Warm and] Fuzzy DateTime Messages

David Kryzaniak — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:27:49 +0000

Jacob Emerick blogged about “Fuzzy Timestamps” a while back. In his post he points out the differences between GitHub’s and Twitter’s implementation of fuzzy dates. Fuzzy dates are pretty common in social media and blogs. Instead of displaying an ugly timestamp, like

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Sanitize Inputs the Easy Way in PHP

David Kryzaniak — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:07:18 +0000

Sanitizing user inputs isn’t fun. It requires writing nasty Regular Expressions (RegEx) or using a ‘find/replace’ like str_replace(). Both RegEx and str_replace() work great, but I want something that’s a bit nicer to look at (and faster too). I ran

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Explode VS Unserialize: Which is Faster

David Kryzaniak — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:51:23 +0000

For a project I am working on, I have a list of words that needs to be in an array. There are a lot of words (about 20,000 split across 3 arrays). I thought it would be faster to serialize

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Handling Fatal Errors Nicely in PHP

David Kryzaniak — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:18:40 +0000

Here is a simple way to nicely handle fatal errors in PHP. I’ve tested this in PHP 5.2, I believe it should work in 4 but I’m not totally sure.

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