Twilio PHP Library Using A Proxy

17 Sep 2013 https://github.com/twilio/twilio-php/issues/144

I found a spot where I can add a proxy to the twilio PHP library.

Go to TinyHttp.php and add the highlighted part (using your own URL of course):

$opts[CURLOPT_PROXY] = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/';
try {
      if ($curl = curl_init()) {

Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket

17 Sep 2013 Error: Can't find out if NetworkManager is running: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory.
The following fixed the problem:
apt-get install dbus
(if you already have dbus installed: sudo service dbus start)
/etc/init.d/network-manager start

What caused the error?:
/etc/init.d/network restart

Could not initialize NMClient

16 Sep 2013 ** (process:17986): WARNING **: error: could not connect to NetworkManager

Fix: Try running with sudo.

For example: sudo nm-tool | grep DNS

Check If Script Is already Running - Python

08 Sep 2013 http://pythonhosted.org/tendo/

import tendo

# If is there another instance already running:
# display the message “Another instance is already running, quitting.”, and return -1 error code.
me = SingleInstance()

Fighting WinSCP Time-Outs

03 Sep 2013 http://www.lampdocs.com/blog/2008/10/winscp-how-to-prevent-timeouts/

That's a guide to making WinSCP send a dummy command every 30 seconds to keep your connection alive. It's way better than constantly having to type in your password.

Crontab Mistake

03 Sep 2013 I wanted to run a script every 20 minutes, so I put this into my crontab:
20 * * * * sh script.sh

That's wrong. That only runs it once every hour 20 minutes into the hour. For example, "20,40 * * * * sh bash.sh" would run it twice - 20 and 40 minutes into the hour.

To run the script every 20 minutes like I was expecting:
*/20 * * * * sh script.sh

Include yiiGridView Javascript

02 Sep 2013 http://chevronscode.com/yii-include-preload-yiigridview-javascript/

I ended up with the following code at the top of the page (since I'm not using a layout):

Yii::app()->clientScript->registerCoreScript('jquery');
$assetsScriptUrl = Yii::app()->getAssetManager()->publish(Yii::getPathOfAlias('zii.widgets.assets'));
Yii::app()->getClientScript()->registerScriptFile($assetsScriptUrl .'/gridview/jquery.yiigridview.js');

PHP Best Practices

20 Aug 2013 https://phpbestpractices.org/

Things I learned:

It's easy to install PHP-APC for quick opcode caching, and it apparently serves the same purpose as memcached for a single server.
Memcache and Memcached are two different libraries.
There's a different (a small one) in speed between single and double quotes.
Use phpass to store passwords.

Set Up Wordpress For FTP

16 Aug 2013 If it's asking you for FTP login information when you try to update wordpress or a plugin, you don't need to do that! Chances are you don't have permissions correctly configured on that directory. Make sure apache owns the directory. On ubuntu, this will probably work (depending on which user owns apache):

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

Add Multiple Unique Indexes - MySQL

15 Aug 2013 alter table users add unique index(id, name, phone);

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