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Easily Open A TCP Port On Your Stock cPanel Server

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Make Your Own 'Like Us' Facebook Window Decal (PDF)

A business I work for has one of those fancy 'Like Us' decals on their window, and I finally got around to finding out just where they managed to grab it. It looks like Facebook had sent them out to businesses a few months back to help up marketing, but has since stopped production. For now, you can make your own with the file here: » Read This Article

What Is Social Media?

You've probably seen the term all over the web, on your phones, on tv, even in magazines. When it comes to Social Media, we normally refer to the tools and sites that are used to share and convey your shared ideas, sites, and information. For example, Facebook and its firm control over the current state of the web allows businesses to not only interact with their customers and fans, but also gain new user base by sharing their useful information with their clients, who in turn share it and spread it among others. » Read This Article

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