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Dawg
RavenNuke(tm) Development Team
Joined: Nov 07, 2003
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Sun May 13, 2007 8:50 pm |
 
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After seeing another post tonight where someone screwed the file up with wordpad I thought I would post a list of the "Got To Haves" for working with php files....These are all FREE
Crimson Editor - Excellent file editor
WinMerge - for compareing two files
Audiocity - This is for editing Audio Files...
The first two I use every day. I know there are more PLEASE post'em up in this thread with a link to the site to download them.
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Dawg
RavenNuke(tm) Development Team
Joined: Nov 07, 2003
Posts: 889
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Sun May 13, 2007 9:01 pm |
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MySQlDiff - Comparing MYSql Files
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Trubador
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Joined: Dec 28, 2004
Posts: 94
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Mon May 14, 2007 3:20 am |
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BigDump - Uploading large sql databases without timeouts.
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Susann
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Joined: Dec 19, 2004
Posts: 3143
Location: Germany:Moderator German NukeSentinel Support
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Mon May 14, 2007 3:22 am |
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kguske
Site Admin
Joined: Jun 04, 2004
Posts: 6044
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Mon May 14, 2007 6:43 am |
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- free editor
- free FTP client
- commercial file comparison
- freeware photo resizing
- free photo viewer, editor, conversion
- color picker |
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Dawg
RavenNuke(tm) Development Team
Joined: Nov 07, 2003
Posts: 889
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Mon May 14, 2007 6:53 am |
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Somone needs to STICKY this thread..... |
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Susann
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Joined: Dec 19, 2004
Posts: 3143
Location: Germany:Moderator German NukeSentinel Support
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Mon May 14, 2007 7:04 am |
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My special thanks goes to Tidy !
With this Firefox extension I have made all my sites W3C conform.
I love it, I like it and I can´t live without Tidy.
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montego
Site Admin
Joined: Aug 29, 2004
Posts: 9136
Location: Arizona
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Mon May 14, 2007 7:59 am |
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| Dawg wrote: | | Somone needs to STICKY this thread..... |
Done!
To add to the list:
FileZilla (free FTP client found on SourceForge).
Everybody took mine.
Honorable mention goes to TextPad (textpad.com) if you want an excellent text editor that is low cost - no, not free). |
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Gremmie
Former Moderator in Good Standing
Joined: Apr 06, 2006
Posts: 2415
Location: Iowa, USA
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Mon May 14, 2007 10:01 am |
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VIM - Vi Improved text editor
GIMP - Open Source graphics manipulation package
XAMPP - Bundled version of Apache/PHP/MySQL; one click install for Windows XP
phpMyAdmin (duh) |
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Susann
Moderator
Joined: Dec 19, 2004
Posts: 3143
Location: Germany:Moderator German NukeSentinel Support
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Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:34 pm |
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I used a site to check url hijacker in the past and I believe this problem still exist.
For example: You added your website url to a directory afterthat go to:
and check out the link. Of course its much better to check the directory before you add your link there. 
Copies of your website, duplicate content you can find with:
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fkelly
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Joined: Aug 30, 2005
Posts: 3186
Location: near Albany NY
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Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:53 pm |
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Beyond Compare has been mentioned before in this thread. I just want to highlight one of its features: it can do a folder/file comparison between say a directory structure on your PC and a FTP folder structure. Before today I had used it mainly to make sure that the files in my FTP folder were current with the latest Ravennuke release(s). But I had done this more or less manually, going thru the folders individually and looking at changed files individually too and copying "up" what seemed appropriate. With as many folders and files as we have in RN that gets very time consuming.
Today I tried folder synchronization. You can basically synchronize from left (the PC) to right (the FTP location). There are a number of options such as "only copy up newer files". To use this feature you have to look at the comparison control tool on Beyond Compare and make sure it is evaluating timestamps (I had this off originally and couldn't understand why it was not replacing some files). Unfortunately, "comparison control" is on the file menu while settings for synchronization are on the tools, options, menu and synchronization itself is on the action menu where, if you choose custom synchronization you have even more options. So it can take a little experimenting to get it right.
That said, if you get everything set up right for synchronization you can probably do in 10 minutes what otherwise could take hours. Oh yeah, you also need to take a look at filters and exclude things like config.php and rnconfig.php which might otherwise overwrite changes you've made. |
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floppydrivez
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 337
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
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Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:32 pm |
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- free text editor with tons of plugins. |
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gotcha
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Joined: Mar 14, 2005
Posts: 91
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Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:06 pm |
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- No more windows for me. Anybody else running a Linux distro on their desktop?
- always open on my desktop - works on windows, linux, mac osx. Default syntax highlighting colors are ugly, but can be changed. Takes a while to get used to some things and plugins are needed to make it a great php editor.
- Nice image editor with plenty of power, it is free, and works on windows/linux/mac. Photoshop is still king though!
- Linux Only - Nice version compare/diff viewer
- Linux Only - Task Lists, Time Tracking, and Billing software with a bunch of cool features - great for large projects
SSH - Manage my VPS entirely through ssh doing software updates, configuration, installation, etc. Also makes some tasks easier like creating/extracting archives, moving/coping files, and all kinds of stuff.
Windows users can use .
- Version Control System - Just starting to get in to using this to keep track of changes between versions. Plenty of GUI's out there to work with SVN/CVS but I haven't played with too many. |
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utssace
Worker
Joined: Feb 18, 2006
Posts: 155
Location: Virginia
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Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:36 pm |
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Good info here.
One that I like to use to make sure that all internal & external website links
are not broken is called "Xenu Link Sleuth". It can help you find pages that
need redirect maintenance. It is free and check it out here.
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Dawg
RavenNuke(tm) Development Team
Joined: Nov 07, 2003
Posts: 889
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Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:49 am |
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This is How to Set up a testing server....from this post....
I was hunting this so I thought I would move this QUOTE here to add to the Goodies!!
Dawg
| montego wrote: | Go with the standard XAMPP installation. What I have done to mimic my site as much as is possible (outside of running it on a Linux platform!), I did this:
=== CREATE ===
I created on my "E" drive a directory called "http". The directory name and placement really is only important for this example's purposes. Use whatever you like and adjust accordingly.
=== OPEN ===
xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf
Since I don't know where you have installed XAMPP, you have to find this on your own. lol.
=== ADD ===
Down at the very bottom of the file, I have added these two (actually I have many sites defined like this) sections:
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NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin
DocumentRoot e:/http
ServerName localhost
ErrorLog e:/@logs/localhost/error.log
CustomLog e:/@logs/localhost/access.log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin
DocumentRoot e:/http/montegoscripts/html
ServerName montegoscripts
ErrorLog e:/@logs/montegoscripts/error.log
CustomLog e:/@logs/montegoscripts/access.log common
</VirtualHost>
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Yes, I have obscured my email address (its not important for this local install anyways) and you can place the log files anywhere with a valid path. I keep a separate log file for every local site to help me debug better.
Also, take special note of where I have placed the nuke installation. I have placed it under the html directory, this allows me to mimic the usual "public_html" type structure on many LAMP installations.
=== OPEN ===
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Depending on your windows installation, this could be slightly different, but will always be in this system32 directory I believe.
=== ADD ===
Take special note of the "ServerName" that I used above in httpd.conf, it was "montegoscripts" for this example. So, at the bottom of this hosts file, add this:
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127.0.0.1 montegoscripts
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=== RESTART APACHE ===
You should now be able to access the site locally with the following URL:
Yes, that is correct! "montegoscripts", via the hosts file, get "resolved" to your local PC IP address (really, the IP address for localhost). Next, Apache gets it and looks up its server requested for "montegoscripts" and routes the traffic accordingly.
What is nice about this is that I can clearly separate my sites AND I can access them at their own "root level" and with preferences I can use "http://montegoscripts" and in the forums configuration "montegoscripts" and the only difference between my local sites and production sites is the ".com" on the end!
Hope you find this useful, because using XAMPP to test your site changes is just a DREAM! Cuts out ALL production downtime issues related to our own dumb mistakes (lol). Believe me, I've made tons of them (see my signature line). |
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Guardian2003
Site Admin
Joined: Aug 28, 2003
Posts: 6373
Location: Vsetin, Czech Republic
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Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:02 pm |
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I started out with Crimson Editor which I thought was pretty good - until I came across Notepad++
I now use Notepad++ exclusively and it's still free!
For file comparisons, I still use Beyond Compare2 even after trying others like WinMerge which reimnds me, I must see if they have updated it in the 18 months or so I have been using it lol.
If I'm tweaking themes or want to do anything relating to color schemes, I also like to have my trusty ColorPicker handy as it can show me the RGB or HEX of any color my mouse hovers over as well as using it to create palletes. It also has a really handy ruler and magnifying glass. |
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Dawg
RavenNuke(tm) Development Team
Joined: Nov 07, 2003
Posts: 889
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:33 pm |
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Here is the Color Picker I use all the time....
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Guardian2003
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Posts: 6373
Location: Vsetin, Czech Republic
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Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:42 am |
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Here is the ColorPicker I use
It is free and has a file size of only 501kb
I honestly do not know how I would some of the things I do without it. |
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kguske
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Joined: Jun 04, 2004
Posts: 6044
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Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:29 am |
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I use both of these color pickers (each has advantages). For web applications, the DHTML color sphere and DHTML color picker from are great. The online application is also useful. |
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montego
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Joined: Aug 29, 2004
Posts: 9136
Location: Arizona
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Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:18 am |
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I personally use for almost all my image needs (which is not much because I am not the most graphically inclined individual - lol). It also has a color picker built in as well as a way to pick a spot on the screen and have it capture the color. |
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Dawg
RavenNuke(tm) Development Team
Joined: Nov 07, 2003
Posts: 889
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Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:19 am |
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This is from a thread about Domain Registration
....I thought it important enough to add to the "Tools"....
| Raven wrote: | | I have always used and recommend . |
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kguske
Site Admin
Joined: Jun 04, 2004
Posts: 6044
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Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:44 pm |
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I just looked at instapro - it's a reseller for GoDaddy... |
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kguske
Site Admin
Joined: Jun 04, 2004
Posts: 6044
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Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:42 pm |
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Need to bump this thread: CoreFTP only provides recursive CHMOD in the PRO ($) version.
HOWEVER, FileZilla 3 is out - and yes, it has recursive CHMOD now! Get your free copy today: |
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montego
Site Admin
Joined: Aug 29, 2004
Posts: 9136
Location: Arizona
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Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:17 am |
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I'll be interested to hear from folks how 3.x is working for them. I had tried it out during in earlier releases and was met with logs of bugs, so I downgraded back to the 2.x branch. That was probably about 6 - 8 months back, so maybe they have ironed out the major bugs by now? |
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kguske
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Posts: 6044
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Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:55 am |
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I'm using the 3.0.8 release, which is primarily a bug fix release. No problems yet, though it's only been used lightly. |
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