Monthly Archives: June 2011

Htaccess rule creator for new to old urls

  By Sam | 23rd June 2011 - 5:26 pm | Servers Leave a comment

Here is a tool to create redirection rules, primarily for rewriting pages based on a query string to a nice seo url.
Created because .htaccess files are the easiest way to break an entire site.

http://www.xnet.tk/CreateRule.php

Example:
Old Url: http://www.xnet.tk/index.php?page=123&something=else
New Url: http://www.xnet.tk/htaccess/rules/

The generated rule would be:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=123&something=else$
RewriteRule .*  htaccess/rules/? [R=301,L]

It can’t handle crossing domains (yet).

Easy php output compression

  By Sam | 11th June 2011 - 12:22 pm | Programming, Tips Leave a comment

Below is what I regard as a reliable method of doing gzip output compression.

One thing that normally breaks gzip compression is something printing/echoing before the ob_start (usually the result of an error, debug output, errant space somewhere etc…), this is where the ob_get_length and ob_flush come in.

The problem is that headers_sent is not a reliable way to tell if any thing has been output because it may still be in the output buffer, so if we flush it before hand problem solved.

 0)
   @ob_flush();

if (!headers_sent() && @ob_start("ob_gzhandler"))
{
   doPage();
   ob_end_flush();
   //Probably a good idea to exit here as more output would break it
   exit;
}
else
{
   doPage();
}