MDB2 PEAR MDB2 is a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database abstraction layers. It provides a common API for all supported RDBMS. The main difference to most other DB abstraction packages is that MDB2 goes much further to ensure portability. MDB2 provides most of its many features optionally that can be used to … Continue reading 10 useful PHP PEAR packages
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8 practical tips to make your web pages faster
Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance team has compiled a list of 34 best practices to have faster web pages. In this post I’ll show you 8 tips which helped me to get a B grade in YSlow! for web pages that I develop. Currently YSlow’s web page analysis is based on 13 identified basic rules that affect web page performance. In decreasing … Continue reading 8 practical tips to make your web pages faster
10 code snippets for PHP developers
I’ve compiled a small list of some useful code snippets which might help you when writing your PHP scripts… Note: If you are using bluehost coupons guide, you can edit php.ini to reflect the changes below. Email address check Checks for a valid email address using the php-email-address-validationclass. Source and docs: http://code.google.com/p/php-email-address-validation/ include(‘EmailAddressValidator.php’); $validator = new EmailAddressValidator; … Continue reading 10 code snippets for PHP developers
Pixidou – an Open Source AJAX Image Editor (PHP and YUI based)
Pixidou is a new open source AJAX image editor which will allow you to : adjust brightness adjust contrast cropping flipping negative resizing rotating tint images. What you need to get running PHP5.2+ installed on your webserver GD2 a web browser Demo Installation Unzip/untar the software in your web directory and that’s all 😉 Also ensure … Continue reading Pixidou – an Open Source AJAX Image Editor (PHP and YUI based)
AJAX image cropper with YUI and PHP
This post will show you how to build an AJAX crop image tool using the image cropper control from YUI library and PHP. If you are unsure of what PHP is, we touch upon it quickly in our Bluehost guide, click here to read more. The ImageCropper Control from the YUI library gives you an interactive interface for getting the … Continue reading AJAX image cropper with YUI and PHP
f-lv.com – download YouTube videos in FLV/MP4/3GP format
After playing with the YouTube API and Python over the past week, I’am pleased to announce the launch of f-lv.com You will be able to : download your favorite YouTube videos in FLV/MP4 format email the video download link to your friend have a look at a nice carousel (thanks Bill for that) with the latest downloaded videos Site is … Continue reading f-lv.com – download YouTube videos in FLV/MP4/3GP format
Add RSS feeds to your website
Adding a RSS feed to your website has never been this easy with PHP, especially with MagpieRSS. About MagpieRSS MagpieRSS is an RSS and Atom parser for PHP which supports RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, the various Userland RSS versions (0.9x and 2.0). Additionally it supports Atom 0.3, and many custom RSS namespaces. Features of MagpieRSS Easy to Use Parses … Continue reading Add RSS feeds to your website
Geolocate your visitors with PHP (part 2)
In the first part of this series I showed how you could get the country of a visitor via his IP address. Now with this precious information, I’ll show you how to map the visitor visually on the world map using Google Maps. You must sign up for a Google Maps API key if you don’t already have one. … Continue reading Geolocate your visitors with PHP (part 2)
SEO friendly URL in PHP
When I started implementing mod_rewrite in websites I had a problem in PHP as how to make a SEO friendly URL. All tutorials were geared towards how to implement mod_rewrite, about modifying .htaccess files, but none treated how to make the urls friendly with dynamic content. For example I have a news section which are pulled from the database, … Continue reading SEO friendly URL in PHP
Geolocate your visitors with PHP (part 1)
In this short post, I’ll show you how to geolocate your visitors with PHP. First of all let’s have a look at what you’ll need : PEAR GeoIP MaxMind GeoLite Country Installing PEAR GeoIP Using your console or using the command prompt type : pear install http://download.pear.php.net/package/Net_GeoIP-1.0.0RC1.tgz If you used our 70% off coupon for Bluehost … Continue reading Geolocate your visitors with PHP (part 1)