Continuing my sporadic posting on scripting, I thought I’d put up a script that I use for keeping an eye on a group of servers. Read on to see the script, and afterwards, I’ll explain what it’s doing and why I did it that way line-by-line.
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I recently finished a little PHP program to process online forms for my work. I couldn’t find anything on the net generic enough to do everything I needed it to do. Basically, this program parses the PDF and emails the recipient with the information, among a few other things. For the purpose of this tutorial, that’s all that needs to be said, anyway. Today I’m going to give you a little write-up on the mail function in PHP.
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Hello again folks, and welcome back to the GOTC tutorial series on hexadecimal/decimal conversions. Last time I introduced the hexadecimal system in a roundabout way by talking about bases in general. I discussed that the difference in bases is simply how many digits you count up to before you “turn-over,” like an odometer in a car. In decimal, for example, it goes 0-9; in hexadecimal, 0-F (where “F” can be thought of as the number 15 in decimal). Therefore, without further ado, let’s jump into a way to convert between these two bases.
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