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Hack terminals in Fallout 3

( ) — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:43:40 -0400

Code Breaker class helps you to hack terminals in Fallout 3, by suggesting which words better to choose. Basically in Fallout 3 game, when hacking terminals, you need to guess the correct password. There are set of words given, and by selecting a word as input, you will receive the ammount of correct letters in the provided word as...

Import comments in Disqus

( ) — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:53:28 -0400

Disqus Import class generates generic xml to import comments from any system into your Disqus forum. Disqus is the best commenting platfom you will ever get. Seriously, the service it provides is awesome and I used it alot and always recommend to my clients. But, importing existing comments from non supported platforms into Disqus is a huge...

Harlem shake HTML elements

( ) — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:37:06 -0500

HarlemShake class brings popular meme to your website. It allows you to shake HTML elements using CSS keyframe animations in Harlem Shake style, providing up to 9 different shake styles Package contains harlemshake.js, harlemshake.packed.js (packed javascript), harlemshakes.css (with animation definitions) and example file: example.html to...

Detect mobile device or browser and act accordingly

( ) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:21:49 -0500

MobileDetect class detects if current visitors uses a mobile device to access the page. Additionally it tries to detect device/browser type and helps you act accordingly. Package contains MobileDetect.js and MobileDetect.packed.js (packed javascript)and two example files: simple_example.html and example.html to demonstrate class...

Apply anaglyph 3D filter using Javascript

( ) — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:44:42 -0400

Anaglyph3D class creates a stereoscopic 3D effect for images or texts by means of encoding each eye's image using filters of different colors . It is possible to specify color filters for each eye to use, thus adapting image or text for all type of anaglyphic glasses. Package contains anaglyph3d.js and anaglyph3d.packed.js (packed...

Animated page transitions

( ) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:00:56 -0400

Page transition class provides a way to define animated transitions between switching webpages. Definition of transition consists of defining 3 types of parameter values: for default page, for transitions start before going to other link and for transitions end, when new page was loaded. There are also 24 predefined transitions included in...

Manipulate layers to create X ray effect

( ) — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:11:41 -0400

xLayers class provides a way to manipulate multiple layers one on another to create interesting effects as x-rays, peeling, etc. It also provides a mouse interaction for resizing/moving layers with available restrictions to which layers can be modified and which actions can be performed This class also provides basic animation for resizing...

Javascript Spotlight visual cue

( ) — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:39:46 -0400

Spotlight class provides a way to create a spotlight like visual cue to concentrate visitors attention to specific webpage elements or actions Package contains spotlight.js, spotlight.packed.js (packed javascript), and three example files: example.html, mouse_example.html and animation_example.html to demonstrate class...

Drawing on websites

( ) — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:55:45 -0400

White board class provides a way to draw on website. It is possible to set width and color of drawing line. Main reason for this package is to save some notes on different pages of website, or share drawings with others using import/export function, for example, with webdesigners, to direct them to flaws, bugs or changes in...

Apply physics to HTML elements

( ) — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:53:51 -0400

Gravity is a box2dweb wrapper for HTML elements. It provides a way to apply physics to HTML elements, define gravity, handle collisions, apply different parameters as friction, restitution, density and even drag physical HTML element bodies. Package contains gravity.js, gravity.packed.js (packed javascript) and three example files:...

Automatically add CSS vendor prefixes

( ) — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 10:26:08 -0400

CSSfix class an automatically apply vendor prefixes to specified CSS rules. It also applies other fixes, for different CSS browser specifics.ContentsDownloadExample codesExamples in actionMethod listAwardsLatest changesSupportDownloadBack to contents PHP classes - CSSfix class Example codesBack to contents //declaring class...

Javascript gesture recognition

( ) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:02:39 -0400

Gestures class provides a way to define and detect gestures. You can define your own gestures, by providing array of points, that defines shape and provide callback function for each shape. It is also possible to detect gestures from provided array of points. Additionally this class can automatically track touch inputs to gather collection...

Get binary data from file

( ) — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:29:51 -0500

Here is a quick example how to get binary data from any file: <?php //call function when contents loaded ob_start("get_bytes"); function to_binary($x, $numbits = 8) { // Convert to binary $bin = decbin($x); $bin = substr(str_repeat(0,$numbits),0,$numbits - strlen($bin)) . $bin; // Split into x 4-bits...

Managing X.509 certificates using PHP

( ) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:20:53 -0500

To generate, sign and verify certificates you need to have OpenSSL module installed and provide file with OpenSSL configuration. Here is an example OpenSSL configuration file: [ req ] default_bits = 1024 default_keyfile = privkey.pem distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name attributes =...

Generate text using images as letters

( ) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:34:37 -0500

Image Font class can generate text taking images of symbols as font. You can provide path to directory with images, using symbols as file names, or you can provide and array with symbols as keys and paths to images as values It is also possible to set a maximal width restriction and alignment of text.ContentsDownloadExample codesExamples in...

Generate words from specified rules

( ) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:59:39 -0500

Word solver class can generate words or anagrams using provided rules, for example, possible errors, placement of specific letter, which letters should be used together, or using any character from specified alphabet. This class can be used to generate solutions to scrabble, crosswords, anagrams and other word gamesContentsDownloadExample...

Transformations and Matrixes

( ) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:12:44 -0500

Transformations are a new feature in the web development world, and it is important for developers to understand the basics of object manipulation in space to use transformations up to their full potential. This article provides an insight on transformations and describes most common types of 2D transformations and how you can apply them using...

Coloring with JavaScript

( ) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:10:58 -0500

With CSS3 standards there is another way of defining colors in CSS and JavaScript called HSL format. This article covers the difference between the good old RGB color model and HSL. It also provides an insight into how you can get channel values from different color formats and named colors, and convert colors from one format to...

Emulating Events on Canvas Drawn Objects

( ) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:07:25 -0500

One of the most interesting new features of HTML5 is definitely the canvas element. But one of canvas’s downsides is an inability to provide event support for its drawn objects. This article provides an insight on how you can emulate simple mouse events and also introduces libraries that could help you do it. Sponsored...

Collecting Feedback Using Google Analytics Events and Custom Variables

( ) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:15:02 -0500

Google Analytics is a powerful tool that generates detailed statistics about your website’s traffic, but its options are not limited to only tracking visitors. It is also capable of tracking visitor’s interaction with website and even providing an option for a feedback, using events and custom variables. Sponsored by ...

Spell your phone number

( ) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:49:00 -0400

Phone Spell class can generate words that represent dialing for provided phone number. It also calculates word weight in numbers to order found variations starting from most promising ones. This class uses Pspell extension as default dictionary, but it is possible to extend class for custom dictionary usage.ContentsDownloadExample...

Inkblot authentication

( ) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:45:25 -0400

Inkblot auth class allows to implement inkblot authentication to your PHP application. It can generate list of inkblots from directory or array. User may provide amount of letters saved per inkblot, to implement different password generation ways The idea is from Microsoft Research about using inkblots in authentication for more complex...

Crossbrowser Pure CSS expandable tool tips

( ) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:17:13 -0400

When you want to create beautiful tooltip, you'll probably end up using some images, but main problem with images, is that it will limit area of tooltips text. But when your tooltips have practical nature, you can simply use this template for creating crossbrowser toolips which aren't limited to any size and are pure CSS without any...

Send email from Gmail using PHP

( ) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:41:02 -0400

Sometimes it can get pretty complex to configure a mail server. It is more complex to make other mail servers believe that your mailserver is legit and not a spam bot. That is why sometimes, you may want to use some external services to do it, and here is a way to send an email from your Gmail account, using PHP. I'm using...

Javascript packing

( ) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:23:19 -0400

You know why you should minify your javascript and CSS files. Files will take less space and they will download faster, thus making your website load faster. But what about javascript packing? What is the difference and do I need it? Well, idea javascript packing is similar to minifying, only it is more complex then just removing spaces and...

All files in directory

( ) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:04:41 -0400

Sometimes there is a need to process all files in one directory, for example resize all images or collect all CSS files, minify them and include in on file, and many other practises. Here is a pretty simple way to do it in PHP: <?php //provide path of directory //in this example we'll use this same directory $d = new...

Print google maps or include in PDF

( ) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:03:39 -0400

Everyone knows and everybody loves Google Maps. They provide easy interface to enhance your web aplication using maps with different customizations. Al those maps are dynamically generated using Javascript, so what happens when you want to print map or for example include in PDF file? It probably won't appear there, because you can include...

Implement game logic to your web application

( ) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:58:26 -0400

Gamify class can help you to implement game logic to your PHP aplications or websites. This class can create needed tables for storing information on most popular database platforms using PDO. It also helps you to add users, define levels and achievements and generate user statistics and tops. Then all you have to do is to bind gamify class...

ShareThis - Sharing Widget

( ) — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:15:15 -0400

There are so many social channels, that its hard to keep up to date with them. Everytime something changes, you need to change it in your website. That's why most of us use only popular social channels like twitter, facebook etc. But doing that you might be missing on a lot of targeted traffic. ShareThis widget allows you to provide...

Protect your content

( ) — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:26:26 -0400

Although there is no way to completely protect your content, atleast you can do something to make it harder. This restrictions are sometimes mandatory for different websites, so here are the tips how you can protect your content using javascript. So it is possible to: disbale right click of the mouse and...

Dynamically resize or crop images

( ) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:48:07 -0400

Here is a script that will alow you to dynamically resize or crop images. It takes parameters from $_GET variables. You can provide image path, width and height. If width and height is not provided, then images default width and height is used. If only width or only height is provided - image is resized to secified width or height. If both...

Add watermark on image using PHP and GD2

( ) — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:44:16 -0400

Best way to protect your images is to put a watermark with your logo on them, so they've become useless for others. Here is an example of how it can be done. This script takes image path and watermark path, creates blank transparent image resource and copies image and watermark to it. It also shows options of watermark placement in...

Get information about video and images from link

( ) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:16:29 -0400

Media Embed class allows you to retrieve information about media like Video or Images by simply using link or embed code from media providers like Youtube, Myspace, etc. It can retrieve embeding codes, title, sizes and thumbnails from more than 20 popular media providersContentsDownloadExample codesExamples in actionMethod listSupported...

Custom events, variables and visitor marking in Google Analytics

( ) — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:14:28 -0400

As I mentioned before Google Analytics is a powerful tool for analyzing your website's traffic. And best thing is that is for FREE. But not everyone knows that Google Analytic's options are not limited to just inserting code in your website and waiting for default parameters to just accumulate ifnromation. You may provide custom events...

Add Google +1 to your website

( ) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:44:28 -0400

Google offers new way to indirectly affect your website search results. It's called +1, where bassically people suggest your content, like many others content sharing features, only now your "Google" friends will know, you suggested it and suggested website will have better chances of appearing in their Google seach...

Find and extract proper nouns from text

( ) — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:08:12 -0400

Proper nouns class can find and extract proper nouns from given text using heuristics based on syntactic clues like first letter uppercased, word position in sentence, etc. It can try to combine proper nouns using conjunctions to find multiple word proper nouns This class provides customizations so it can be applied to other languages,...

Get scroll position of webpage - crossbrowser

( ) — Fri, 20 May 2011 05:06:55 -0400

Here is a function to get scroll position of current webpage: <script type='text/javascript'> //get scroll position var get_scroll = function(){ var x = 0, y = 0; if( typeof( window.pageYOffset ) == 'number' ) { //Netscape compliant y = window.pageYOffset; x = window.pageXOffset; } else if(...

Prevent default event behavior - crossbrowser

( ) — Fri, 20 May 2011 04:45:01 -0400

With almost each javascript event there is a default behavior that is followed after event's been fired. For example, if you click on a link, you can do stuff provided in onclick event, and then you'll be redirected to provided URL. Not all event behavior can be prevented, usually it can be determined using event.cancelable...

Get relative cursor positions

( ) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:16:48 -0400

Every browser support clientX and clientY mouse event properties to get cursor position relative to screen you see. If you'd like to get cursor position relative to whole page (counting scrolling position), it could be done using this function: function get_page_coord(e) { //checking if pageY and pageX is already available if...

Firebug for IE

( ) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:00:09 -0400

It's easy to debug HTML or CSS code in browsers like Opera or Firefox, because they provide their own tools. There is a Dragonfly for Opera and Firebug for Firefox. But what about IE? Well there is an option to use firebug light version and inject it right into current page to have almost same functionality like with Firebug in...

Get video thumbnail from vimeo

( ) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:45:11 -0500

This function uses vimeo API to get information about video (including thumbnail). It takes new or old embed code or url of vimeo video and returns array with information about video. <?php function get_vimeo_thumb($vimeo) { $id = $vimeo; //try new embed code preg_match('/http://player.vimeo.com/video/([^?"]*)/is', ...

Javascript events - crossbrowser

( ) — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:08:56 -0500

Here's a two useful functions to manipulate events in javascript. First one allows you to add new event. And second one will return you element, which fired event. //add event var add_event = function(element, type, listener){ if(element.addEventListener) { element.addEventListener(type, listener, false); } ...

Crossbrowser viewport size

( ) — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:55:31 -0500

This function allows you to get viewport dimensions (width and height). Viewport is an area that is available for webpage, that is screen resolution - toolbars etc. //get viewport size var viewport = function(){ var viewport = new Object(); viewport.width = 0; viewport.height = 0; // the more standards compliant browsers...

Convert twitter created_at time format to ago format

( ) — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:57:16 -0500

Here is a simple PHP function, which can convert created_at time format from twitter API to ago time format (hour ago, week ago, etc) like on twitter website itself. <?php function twitter_time($a) { //get current timestampt $b = strtotime("now"); //get timestamp when tweet created $c = strtotime($a); //get...

Cursor positions and text selections

( ) — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:16:00 -0500

For each input in every modern browser there are properties like selectionStart and selectionEnd using which we can easily manipulate cursor position and text selection. Every browser except IE. In IE you will have to deal with text ranges and there is no united way for textareas and input methods, so we'll need to create separate...

Rate content using stars

( ) — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:48:00 -0500

Here are some javascript functions, that will allow your visitors to rate your content by clicking on stars. We will use same stars, that are used in display rating using stars article. So what we will do, is define two CSS classes with full star and empty star. Then create 3 javascript function. One for onmouseover event that will change...

Javascript snow for your website to create Christmas atmosphere

( ) — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:11:53 -0500

Here is a nice javascript Snow to add Christmas atmosphere to your website. You can manage snow flake graphic, speed, amplitude etc. Easy to implement and it looks really nice. You can download latest version from JavaScript Display snow flakes falling on the Web page An here is how to implement it to your website: <script...

Using Google Analytics Async code for Ajax websites

( ) — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:28:35 -0500

For faster page loading it is suggested to put all your javascript files to the bottom after all content. But Google Analytics Async Code does not slow down page loading time, because it is working synchronously, thus it can be used in the beginning of the page. But as code doesn't reload using AJAX, then those pages aren't tracked....

Search optimization for AJAX websites

( ) — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 07:08:43 -0500

AJAX not only provides faster website loading (because not whole page is refreshed, but only part of content is changed ), but also more interactivity and better user experience. But one main thing that discourages web developers from using AJAX on their websites is that AJAX generated pages are not indexed by search...

Collecting and debugging PHP and mysql errors

( ) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:52:03 -0500

As you know it is advised to prevent showing PHP related error messages because of security issues. So how can you track if there are any errors in your script that might not only have effect on user experience, but also potentially create security holes for others to exploit. The best way is to create custom handlers for errors. You...

Delay external content loading for better performance

( ) — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:50:22 -0500

It is hard to imagine website without without any external content. Either it is a sharing tool like twitter button, widget or even advertising like adsense, they're all using external scripts that will increase your website loading time. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't use any external content. Some of this tools are...

Cache images from PHP output

( ) — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:24:20 -0500

Sometime you need to generated image using PHP and mostly it's because you want to make dynamical image, that changes often, like CAPTCHAs. But there are rare occasions, when this image do not change. OF course browser usually don't cache PHP generated images, but if image that is outputted by PHP doesn't change, why shouldn't...

Simple Auto-CMS using HTML pages

( ) — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:19:12 -0400

Here is an interesting idea of CMS which is managed by HTML files. It is simple php script, that searches specified location and takes all folders and html files and interprets them as pages and content. Basically, you can manage your content with HTML files, and this script will automatically create menu to browse them. For example,...

Optimizing site loading time using YSlow recommendations

( ) — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:51:10 -0400

YSlow is a firefox plugin that offers you optimization tips for your website by scanning it. To use YSlow you'll need to install Firebug plugin, then install YSlow plugin. And after that, press right mouse button anywhere on your website, choose "Inspect element" and click on YSlow tab. So before testing how YSlow tips improve...

Compressing webpage content for faster page loading

( ) — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:51:51 -0400

There are many ways of how to compress your web page content, that is outputted to end user's browser. Most popular are: using apache mod_gzip or mod_deflate, using zlib compression or using ob_gzhandler. There are many opinions on which is better and probably there are no right answer, and since combined usage of this methods is not...

Create blank transparent PNG images using PHP GD functions

( ) — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:02:52 -0400

Here is a function to create blank transparent png image for background. This function uses alpha channel information for image transparency (thus available only for PNG). It takes width and height as a parameters and returns GD image resource: <?php function create_blank($width, $height){ //create image with specified sizes ...

CSS sprites to speed up page loading

( ) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:23:06 -0400

What are CSS sprites? Well it's simply images used in website design, put in one image file. It means that browser needs to download only one image instead of multiple and as browser can can maintain only couple simultaneous connections, it needs one HTTP request and connection to download all design images, thus making all other site...

Awesome jQuery Tooltip plugin

( ) — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:31:22 -0400

Here is one awesome jQuery tooltip plugin. It's awesome, not only because it looks cool and works great, it is also fully customizable. For more information about plugin go to flowplayer.org. You can customize tooltip outlook using css, customize it's effect and position using javascript, and you can attach them to any combination...

Mysql access wrapper for Flash ActionScript 3 using PHP

( ) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:31:23 -0400

Since flash doesn't have it's own way to connect to database, web developers usually use PHP for that purpose. Then there are many ways how to pass data to flash using XML etc. But all code snippets and tutorials I've found on the Internet are usually not multi functional and serve only for one purpose to insert data, or select...

Dynamically compress css and javascript files

( ) — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:58:44 -0400

One way to speed up your page loading time is to optimize all files needed for your website. For example, more file takes space (Kb, Mb, etc), more time it needs to be downloaded to end users computer to view your website. So if you make those file lesser, they will load faster. What are the options? For example, you can take all comments...

Implementing RDF and Sparql using ARC solution

( ) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:37:39 -0400

There aren't many good solutions for RDF and Sparql implementation using PHP. ARC by Semsol is one of the best I've seen for now. So what can you do with it? First thing you can add many RDF structures into one database and then browse them using SPARQL query language. Then you can create SPARQL endpoint and allow others to browse...

Google image API using cURL

( ) — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:58:00 -0400

There are alot of tutorials on Google Image search API using javascript interface, but what if you want to do it old fashion way, using php and curl? Well here is a way to do it. First you'll need to register for Google Search API key Then you can use this piece of code, just don't forget to input your API...

Generate WORD document using PHP

( ) — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:46:56 -0400

There are two ways of generating word document using PHP. First would be using COM object. Other would be by sending headers and outputting HTML code for browser to interpret as word document. So for using COM object, here is an example of how to do it: <?php // Create new COM object – word.application $word = new...

Random banner rotation in ptcevolution script

( ) — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:00:24 -0400

Here is a way to implement random banner rotation to show multiple random banners on same page. This script works for PTC Evolution Version 1.1.0 script. Didn't test it on other versions. For more information about script visit PTC Evolution website. So what you'll need to do is to create banners.php file in your root...

Get youtube thumbnail

( ) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:26:23 -0400

This function can get thumbnail of youtube video. It takes embed code or link to youtube video as parameter and returns link to thumbnail of that video from youtube server. <?php //you can pass embed code or youtube link function youtube_thumbnail($youtube){ //checking if anything found using embed code expression ...

Pre filled text input

( ) — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:17:13 -0400

From marketing point of view, visitor is more likely to submit information to form if he or she is any way encouraged to do that. One way to encourage visitor is to prefill input with encouraging text. Most common mistake to do that is to use predefined text value in input and delete it on focus event. It's a mistake because, for...

Get skype status

( ) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:50:25 -0400

Skype is a popular voice communication program that is used by many millions of users worldwide. Many companies all over the world are using skype to provide support for their customers online, so it is necessarily to show skype status of support accounts on companies websites. To do it, you can use this simple function fro retrieving skype...

Prevent hotlinking using mod rewrite

( ) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:26:03 -0400

Save your bandwidth and protect your content with simple mod rewrite rules. Just create .htaccess file in your website root directory and add code below, edited to match your needs: Options +FollowSymLinks Options +Indexes RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ #your domain name RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !domain.com #all file...

Get Twitter account information based on username

( ) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:03:26 -0400

Here is a function that uses Twitter API, to get information about Twitter account based on Twitter username. If there is no account with that username, an error will be returned, if Twitter account is protected - empty array will be returned, else array with user information and latest account activities will be returned. Use print_r to...

Secure login over HTTP

( ) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:46:04 -0400

It is important to keep passwords secure by storing hash of password in database or $_SESSION variables, so if anybody would get to those, they still couldn't easily know what your password is. But it doesn't matter how secure you make it on server side, if everything could be seen on user side. What I mean is, if user is logging in...

Generate calendar using PHP and browse it using AJAX

( ) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:37:25 -0400

Here is a way to generate calendar using PHP and allow user to browse it using AJAX. You will need http://webcodingeasy.com/jquery.js to parse json structure. You can modify this code, to limit month and year user can browse, and also attach link to specific dates, based on your database records. So here is PHP code which generates json...

Meta tag usage in nowadays search engines

( ) — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:07:10 -0400

Should you use meta tags now, when most search engines just parse your page and get all information from there? Does any of the search engines even look at meta tags? Here are couple of reasons why you should use meta tags: Meta tags suggest keywords to search engines, so if you have many words on your site that are not related to...

Get all guitar chord variations

( ) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 05:29:41 -0400

Here is a function that can get all guitar chord variations using chord name. It uses http://pargitaru.id.lv/api/ API, which can give chord information based on chord names, modifications like major, minor, etc, or any string and fret combination. This function takes chord name as a parameter, you can specify chord modification - minor,...

Submit your sitemap to Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing and Moreover

( ) — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:32:50 -0400

Here is a function that allows you easily submit your sitemap to search engines and services like Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing and Moreover with passing just one parameter, your sitemap URL. Then you'll have a response array, which you can us to check if there any connection related curl errors, or submitting related error responses, or...

Generate sitemap for your site

( ) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:47:26 -0400

Here is a function to generate sitemap by parsing your page URLs. Note: use it only locally, for example, it takes 3-4 seconds to generate a sitemap for http://webcodingeasy.com locally, but it takes about 100 seconds to do it remotely. <?php //setting to no time limit, set_time_limit(0); //Placed locally on server it takes...

Tracking your site statistics

( ) — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:49:53 -0400

How to determine if your site is search friendly, or did search optimization provide any boost in your search rankings? Most popular search engines already provide you with tools to track your site appearance in search engines. You'll need to create 3 accounts to access webmaster tools in 3 biggest search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing....

What to use dashes or underscore?

( ) — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:41:20 -0400

What separator to use when separating words in URLs? Should you use underscores like this: "word1_word2" or dashes like this: "word1-word1". Well I think underscore looks more awesome than dashes. But it's not about a taste or how it looks. It's about how search engines work. If you search for...

Using MOD rewrite to make site search friendly

( ) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:25:38 -0400

Here is the way to rewrite your site URLs to more search friendly way. For example address http://example.com/index.php?category=5&subcategory=1 doesn't say anything to search engines nor to site visitors. Much better way is rewriting URL as a path like http://example.com/category-name/subcategory-name. It tells search engines and...

Making database backup and storing it in file

( ) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:21:03 -0400

Here are two useful function, one makes a backup of specified database and stores it in file, other restores database from a backup file made by first function. <?php //backup function to create database backups files //$con - database connection //$db - database name //$path - path where to save backup file //$sep - custom seperator...

Get list of episodes from IMDB

( ) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:13:42 -0400

Here is the piece of code that will get a list of episodes for TV series from this unofficial IMDB API. This function takes TV series name as a parameter and you may also specify year, if there are more TV series with same name. It returns an array with all episodes of specified TV series structured by seasons: <?php //name - title of...

PHP easter eggs

( ) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:38:56 -0400

There is an easter egg in PHP configuration that also allows you to detect a possible vulnerability. Inside the php source within php-source/ext/standard/info.h (lines 53 to 56), there are 4 code defining PHP logos like this: <?php #define PHP_LOGO_GUID "PHPE9568F34-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42" #define PHP_EGG_LOGO_GUID...

Strip slashes based on magic_quotes settings

( ) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:30:29 -0400

Here is a function that checks magic_quotes and then accordingly strips slashes in your text. It can be used to clean text before using mysql_real_escape string, if you can't disable magic_quotes. Or just clean text after taking it out of database: <?php function strip($val) { if (TRUE ==...

Emulate register_globals off

( ) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:42:09 -0400

Here is a function that emulates register_globals off, if you can't disable it yourself, you can use this function in the beginning of the script: <?php // Emulate register_globals off function unregister_GLOBALS() { if (!ini_get('register_globals')) { return; } // Might want to change this perhaps to a...

Generate QR code with meta data

( ) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:16:01 -0400

Here is a simple function to generate Quick Response codes with simple meta data like text, phone number, email or URL. This function takes 5 parameters: data to encode, type of meta, data to use(TXT for text, EMAIL for email, TEL for phone number and URL for a website link ), size of image in pixels, error correction level,...

Simulating table sorting using li elements

( ) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:31:55 -0400

It is hard to find good script to sort table cells using drag and drop combined with ajax. So here is an example where you can simulate table cell sorting using floating li elements with specified width and limiting them with container div element. You'll need http://webcodingeasy.com/js/mootools.js to make it work. <?php $con =...

Don't use index.php or index.html

( ) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:44:31 -0400

Don't use index.php or other common file names like home.php or welcome.php to access your site. Of course in depends on your server security, but there are many scripts that are searching files with these names and tries to delete them. It is much better to give file a custom name, maybe depending on your site name. And then to make it...

Form validation PHP and Javascript

( ) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:30:41 -0400

There are two very similar in use validation classes, the difference is that one is for javascript: http://www.javascript-coder.com/html-form/javascript-form-validation.phtml and other is for PHP: http://www.html-form-guide.com/php-form/php-form-validation.html So why to use both PHP and javascript validations? Javascript has...

AJAX suggestion script like in google

( ) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:34:11 -0400

Recently I came across one great script that allows you to create suggestions from your database to the user input. More about it here: http://www.robertnyman.com/ajax-suggestions/. We will use this script to implement into form where input fields are dynamically created (user can add more input fields). So to use this script you...

PHP configuration

( ) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:49:08 -0400

You can view your PHP configuration using phpinfo() function, but never leave it so others could access it, because PHP configuration contains information, that hackers might find useful. So use it, but so only you can access it. First thing to do is to turn the register_globals off. It is already done in latest PHP versions, but it...

Update select element using AJAX

( ) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:14:39 -0400

To do this you will need http://webcodingeasy.com/jquery.js library. So for example in one select element we have two parents, each of them has their own children. We want to display children of selected parent in second select element. So here is a code for select elements: <select name='parent' id='parent'...

Drag and drop sortable list using Mootools

( ) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:31:13 -0400

To create a sortable list you will need http://webcodingeasy.com/js/mootools.js javascript library in your <head> tags. Then you can use this simple list (attribute alt is the identifier) <ul id='list'> <li alt='1'>item1</li> <li alt='2'>item2</li> <li alt='3'>item3</li> <li...