Shell with PHP
By fiLi • Sep 14th, 2006 • Category: Web DevelopmentNeed shell access on your hosting but all you have is FTP? don’t worry about it. PHPsh will do the job for you perfectly.
PHPsh is simple webbased shell access to your server, available at http://www.psychogenic.com/en/products/PHPsh.php .
I’ve always felt a bit stuck with limited hosting, but having tried the PHPsh solution, I can say it’s a wonderful substition.
[...] Some Drupal modules still have bugs of creating tables with the wrong collation. Here’s a piece of quick code you can run from your shell if you notice mixed collation in your DB. I will go table by table and change the collation to Unicode. If you don’t have shell, try a shell solution for PHP. [...]
[...] care. You can either execute as any other PHP file, running PHP from your shell or using a PHP-shell, executed as a cron job [...]