it could be entered in spread sheet view, or generated as a file by php w/ mysql data

http://infinite-labs.net/afloat/

dscacheutil -flushcache

Will flush the DNS records of your mac (os x). However, if your still stuck getting DNs information from the server or router… your kinda out of luck unless you can refresh that as well. Im without access to such things.

*you know i could also be dealing with a ISPs proxy DNS. Maybe that has cached the entry and has not updated yet.

I have a few PHP scripts that come in handy on a lot of different sites. The issue I ran into was that if i needed to make an update to one of these useful scripts, I’d have to go find all instances of that script, and update them across many domains.

There’s ways of doing this with ninja SED/grep styles. But a better way may to be make a folder just below the domains directory, and include files from that directory as needed.

In the example below im stepping backwards from the public html directory into my scripts directory.

include('../../../phpIncludes/test.php');

Thats about the extent of it, and im sure this can be cleaned up a bit.  I was using the scandir() function to find my way to the proper path by echoing out the files of the current directory.

I was also reading open_dir() can cause issues with this technique, and if open_dir() is active it can php scripts from editing lower than the domains’s root. open_dir() is a good safety net, but is also prevents some tricks and techniques that just need to happen. A good example is in WordPress sites (as of 2.9) the Media library will throw errors with open_dir() enabled.

Im conducting an experiment, I’m going to have it randomly pick one of my aliases at runtime and insert it as the author name, lets see if the search engines show me some love.

using the p2 theme..

entry.php (~ line 16)

printf(
  '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s">'.randomName().'</a>',
   get_author_posts_url( p2_get_author_id() ),
   sprintf( __( 'Posts by %s', 'p2' ), p2_get_author_name() ),
  get_the_author()
  );

function.php

function randomName(){

    $myName = array('Nathan Haskins', 'Neight Haskins', 'Nathan A Haskins', 'Nate Haskins', 'nhaskins', 'neight401');
    $randValue = rand(0, count($myName)-1);
    $output = $myName[$randValue];
    return $output;
}

*sidenote if I use markup=”none” in the code tags, it will prevent the anchor tags from turing into links… nice

Update: 5/9/10
-The experiment is working, and I’m quicking ranking as #1 most of my aliases now hah! The variation of ‘nate haskins’ is going to be difficult to get…

Update 5/10/10
google search results

‘neight401′ – #1 result
‘nathan haskins ‘ – #1 result
‘nhaskins’ – #2 result… getting beat out by some dude commenting on a mac forum.
‘nate haskins ‘ – still not found on the first page
‘neight’ – still not found on the first page