Archive for category Web Programming

Firefox Add-on Collector

Now you can have a list of your favourite Firefox Add-ons to share. I have always tried to keep a list in my bookmarks of the Add-ons I find most useful and normally recommend to people, now life has become much easier.
Discover more of the best add-ons and organize your favourites in easy-to-manage collections. [...]

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Error 1062 – Duplicate entry ‘2147483647′ for key 1

CRE Loaded was giving me the error  1062 – Duplicate entry ‘2147483647′ for key 1 – when trying to add a new product.
Cause: for some unexplained reason the auto_increment ID field on Table “products” has gone up to 2147483647 which is apparently the maximum number of rows permitted in an INT column.
Fix:

Go to your phpMyadmin [...]

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Keyword search and website ranking tools

Any webmaster and marketer will know how important it is to keep track of their website ranking, keyword positioning, visits, ROI and so on…  There are a lot of interesting tools out there to help us. 

Google Analytics – Visitor tracking, keyword positioning, goal setting, demographics and more…
http://www.alexa.com – web traffic metrics, top sites lists, [...]

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Automatically display form data with PHP

This is a simple PHP  script to automatically display (dump output)  data submited from a html form.
The form setup

all inputs (form fields) need to have the same name with [] at the end to turn it into an array,  e.g <input type=text name=formdata[]>

formq.html content
<form method=post action=showme.php>
Name: <input type=text name=formdata[]><br>
Email: <input type=text name=formdata[]><br>

<input type=submit value=ok>
</form>

The Script [...]

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PDF to Email with registration

Serve PDF files on your website by requesting the user to register their email address. The PDF file is sent to the given email address and the user details registered on a database. This is a very simple script and relies on four main features.

Apache mod_rewrite (via the .htaccess file)
PHPMailer
MySQL database
the simple-register.php script itself

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.htaccess 301 Redirect

.htaccess files (or “distributed configuration files”) provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis in an Apache HTTP Server. This file, containing one or more configuration directives, is placed in a particular document directory, and the directives apply to that [...]

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PHP 5.2.8 Avaliable fixed the security bug on 5.2.7

the PHP version 5.2.7 was removed from distribution due to a bug that caused a security hole in some configurations. The bug was related to the magic_quotes_gpc which will be deprecated in version 2.6.
The PHP development team has officially announced the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.8. This release addresses a regression introduced by 5.2.7 in [...]

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Python3 – Intentionaly backward incompatible

Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries.
The Python developers have released the final version of Python
3.0, a major reworking of the programming language. It’s said to be intentionally incompatible
with the [...]

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Facebook Connect

Facebook has finally released the so awaited Connect. This feature allows users to share actions and information from the internet with their
friends on Facebook including publishing Feed stories to profiles and
sending requests.
Connect was first announced in May 2008 but only recently it has been made available. There are already a few sites that have implemented [...]

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Search Engine Optimization SEO in PHP (Book)

The term SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has become a new phenomenon with marketeers.  As a programmer/developer it’s very hard to find a good book on such a broad subject but recently I found this great book. The authors go about explaining and guiding you through exercises that are relevant for both programmers and marketeers.  [...]

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