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PHP Unserializer

This was posted on 04/18/2012 | (No Comments Yet)

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How To: Quickly Add a New PHP Extension Via SSH

This was posted on 02/19/2012 | (No Comments Yet)

Had a developer friend ask me how to do this the other day - figured I would post it here on the site » Read This Article

Easily Open A TCP Port On Your Stock cPanel Server

This was posted on 07/20/2011 | (No Comments Yet)

I had to open a port to utilize a merchant services gateway, FirstData. If you want a REALLY easy way to do this, without SSHing or doing anything technical, follow the steps here. » Read This Article

Free Code: Find The Total Line Count Of A Folder Using PHP

This was posted on 07/17/2011 and was filed in PHP, Code Snippets | (No Comments Yet)

I was looking for a way to quickly see how many lines I had coded for a project. This will use a recursive function to loop through a directory, scanning for any php/xhtml/css/js files and counting how many lines they might have inside. » Read This Article

Free Code: ReCaptcha Form Validation With PHP

This was posted on 06/30/2011 and was filed in Tips And Tricks, Guides and Information, PHP, Code Snippets | (6 Comments)

A friend of mine asked me for a quick and simple way to add ReCaptcha to a contact form on her site. For demonstration purposes, I created a form from scratch and tossed ReCaptcha's PHP API onto it. » Read This Article

Stop Cron Jobs From Automatically Sending You Emails

This was posted on 06/19/2011 and was filed in Tips And Tricks | (No Comments Yet)

If you use a lot of cron jobs like I do, you tend to have some that you would like automatically sent over, and some you want to just let run without ever sending you an email and clogging your inbox. This line can be added to the end of your cron job command to stop the command from sending an email out and off to you: » Read This Article

Google's New +1 Button

This was posted on 06/11/2011 and was filed in Social Media, Guides and Information | (2 Comments)

Google released it's new +1 button and has provided yet another way for us to tie into the social media experience. » Read This Article

Quick And Easy SEO Tips

This was posted on 04/30/2011 and was filed in Guides and Information, Blogging | (No Comments Yet)

A few quick and easy tips to aid you when gearing or simply preparing your site for future SEO work. I tend to follow these principles when designing any site - whether or not I'm gearing it for SEO. » Read This Article

GoDaddy Coupon Codes (Updated 4/4/2010)

This was posted on 04/04/2011 and was filed in Money Savers | (2 Comments)

GoDaddy coupon codes, cause we're all poor students. I pull these from an excellent post on FatWallet.com. » Read This Article

.htaccess Trick: Redirect www Visitors To Your Non-www Site

This was posted on 04/03/2011 and was filed in Tips And Tricks, .htaccess, How-Tos | (No Comments Yet)

If you want to completely remove the www. from your domain name when visitors visit your website, place the following code snippet into your .htaccess file. » Read This Article

Awesome Firefox Plugins For Web Developers

This was posted on 03/12/2011 and was filed in Useful Websites, Guides and Information | (No Comments Yet)

I do a LOT of support for other developers, newbies and advanced. One of the biggest questions I get is 'What the hell did you just do!?'. I have a handful of awesome Firefox plugins that I like to use to make myself more efficient when it comes to building and debugging websites. Check out what I like to use. » Read This Article

How To Convert A Video To An FLV And Create A Flash Player For It Using Flash and Adobe Media Encoder

This was posted on 02/23/2011 and was filed in Tips And Tricks, Guides and Information, Blogging, Flash, Dreamweaver, Video, How-Tos | (No Comments Yet)

Student requested this one - he has a movie file ( .avi ) that he wants to upload to his website with controls and a player for his visitors to be able to watch. » Read This Article

Fix YouTube iFrame Overlay and Z-Index Issues

This was posted on 02/22/2011 and was filed in Tips And Tricks, How-Tos | (62 Comments)

YouTube's new iFrame player is a nice refresh to the old embed method, but if you are placing it on pages with content that overlaps or overlays on each other or uses things like lightbox, you may notice that the videos appear on top of content. » Read This Article

Starter Guide To Facebook Pages

This was posted on 02/17/2011 and was filed in Social Media, Guides and Information | (No Comments Yet)

Facebook pages are essentially mini sites on facebook for your company, organization, or even hobby to live on. They allow your business to get out there into the world of social media and integrate right into the facebook user streams » Read This Article

Quick Guide To PHP Loops

This was posted on 02/08/2011 and was filed in Guides and Information, PHP, Code Snippets | (No Comments Yet)

I receive a LOT of questions about loops and how/when to use them. Hopefully this will answer a few of the basic questions. I'll add more to this as more questions come in. » Read This Article

PHP MD5 Encoder

This was posted on 02/03/2011 and was filed in PHP, MD5 | (1 Comment)

Here's a quick and easy MD5 Encoder. MD5 is not meant to be de-coded, so it is good for storing passwords and private information you may need to use to verify a user, or even for generating secure keys » Read This Article

Disabling The Link On YouTube's Embedded Video Player

This was posted on 02/03/2011 and was filed in Tips And Tricks | (6 Comments)

Sometimes you might want to prevent your users from clicking through a YouTube video away from your site. This code snippet will stop that from happening. » Read This Article

Simple PHP Auto-Update System

This was posted on 01/19/2011 | (8 Comments)

I managed to make this script in about two hours. I hope I saved somebody some time with it. You can download the source files below with an example of a simple update I might put up. Make sure you format these files to work with your system. » Read This Article

SEO Friendly .htaccess 301 Redirects

This was posted on 12/04/2010 | (No Comments Yet)

Quick and easy htaccess code snippet to save you some negative points when doing website redesigns or changing filenames on your websites » Read This Article

Forcing File Downloads With htaccess

This was posted on 12/01/2010 and was filed in Tips And Tricks, Guides and Information, .htaccess | (No Comments Yet)

I was asked how we could force a user to 'download' a file without using php to alter the header. This htaccess script will force users to DOWNLOAD anything a folder, rather than viewing it in their browser. Really useful when you want to do things like music downloads, image donwloads, etc. » Read This Article

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