Archive for the ‘practical webmaster tips’ Category

Screen Scraping Tutorials and Info

Friday, November 16th, 2007

I’m about to improve / re-design some of my old code that scrapes my customer’s websites …

refactoring - the power of good variable, method and function names within code

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Deep in some rainforest, an explorer found a long-lost tribe of people who could only count up …

php - using fopen instead of upload to import external images to website over http

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

If you want to let your website users add their own images to your website you could …

Practical Security on PHP - Good article online

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Whilst researching information for my previous post on chmods, safe mode etc. I discovered a fantastic …

Merging ZEND framework with an existing site - mod_rewrite

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

In a typical application of the Zend framework, a RewriteRule is created to route …

Can everyone see your PLESK stats?

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

For those using PLESK as a control panel to manage a web site:

If you have access to …

How to download .htaccess files via FTP

Friday, April 27th, 2007

One of the most common problems that any newby webmaster has to face is the issue of …