We've probably all seen web sites featuring paid content requiring the use of a credit card. Generally such a web site provides a brief paragraph or two advertising their product, perhaps displaying a table of contents and finally a form making the information available for download. The true advantage of any digital product, such as an online e-book, is the instant gratification factor. Customers don't want to wait for product delivery. Instant payment notification or IPN (a paypal term) ...
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Sometimes the easiest thing seems nearly impossible - especially when it's something we've already decided beforehand is too difficult to even attempt. With me, that turned out to be the .htpasswd file and all the accompanying "mystical, technical whatevers" that also went into making one. But, much like the Seuss's tale of Green Eggs and Ham, once I finally actually looked into it - and found the right tools and a couple of good examples - it turned out to be relatively simple. Yes, even you ...
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You can get quite a bit of information about your visitors without having to use a third party tracking software. I'll outline the PHP commands you can use to capture some of this data. The details you capture can be saved into a database, and retrieved later to check your site's performance and user details. The following information is captured using the server variable ($_SERVER) which is available from PHP 4.10 onwards. Visitor's IP address : You can get the visitor's IP address using ...
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As more and more people are getting into the AdSense game, there seem to be many questions asked again and again by the newcomers. Here, I have compiled detailed explanations to some common AdSense terms, facts, and performance tips. Terminology Real Stats (Figures based on actual performance tracking updated several times a day) Page Impressions: The number of times an ad unit (a collection of 1 to 4 ads). If you have two ad units on a page, then every time the page loads you get two ...
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PHP Programmers Swear the Most ads online adsense revenue site October 9th, 2006 Thanks to Google's new Code Search and some datamining, we now know that PHP is the language with most occurrences of the F-word. I bet half of those people are cursing at their own programming language -- the PHP syntax has lots of inconsistencies & redundancies making a programmer's life harder From just $30 per day, I had 'Shot Up' To $500 PER DAY with just a few tiny changes the majority of AdSense users ...
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With technology making it possible for us to stay connected wherever we go, it is hard to stay away from our emails when we are on vacation. However, by using some of Microsoft Outlook's advanced features, you can let Outlook respond to your emails while you take a well-deserved vacation.   Of course, Outlook may not be able to send personalized messages to the senders as you would. Nevertheless, for every email sent during the period that you will be away, Outlook can respond with a ...
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PHP has built in functions which allow it to open, copy, rename, edit and delete files residing on the web server. This enables files to be cached to decrease database queries and increase server performance. Files can be edited very easily with PHP, useful for people on the go without FTP information to their site or an FTP application to access their website and something desperately needs changed. Every PHP application opens files and uses the information stored within them to make the ...
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When you need to build a website, one of the best tools to use is a PHP code generator. This tool makes it simple for anyone to build a great site, even if you don't have experience. There are some mistakes that many people make when trying to use a generator to build their website. Knowing what these mistakes are will help you avoid making these same mistakes. It will also make using a generator much easier and more effective for your website. Here are the mistakes to avoid at all cost if you ...
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There are many adsense tips floating around the internet. Here are some adsense tricks that can drastically increase your CTR and your profits. Lots of people say to make your ads blend in. However, some people are having a lot of success by making their links stand out. The most effective style seems to be having your links blue, while your other links are a less-noticeable color. A good example can be seen at www.lockergnome.com - Place images directly above your ads. This simple ...
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There are many adsense tips floating around the internet. Here are some adsense tricks that can drastically increase your CTR and your profits. Lots of people say to make your ads blend in. However, some people are having a lot of success by making their links stand out. The most effective style seems to be having your links blue, while your other links are a less-noticeable color. A good example can be seen at www.lockergnome.com - Place images directly above your ads. This simple ...
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PHP can be used to check if login fields match in a database. Built in functions allow advanced methods of user authentication to be used. A simple example of a user login authentication script consists of 4 main parts. The first part is retrieving the posted variables and assigning them names descriptive of their values. The next part is confirming the variables aren't empty. Then search the database for matching login name, and running password comparison checks if the name is found. ...
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Starting a website is just the beginning of making it successful. If your site doesn't get any hits, there are no repeat visitors. Regardless of whether or not your website is focused around online sales, your website simply needs visitors to grow. "Auto-surf" and "manual-surf" websites help in this area because they are a cheap, most of the time free, way to improve your Alexa ranking. A majority of the major search engines, including google, factor in your Alexa ranking - which could get you ...
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I can't believe PHP is 10 years old! When I first started developing web applications in 1994, there was really only one choice. Perl. Early in 1995, my friend, who was also my systems administrator at the time, introduced me to PHP. It was a small CGI that parsed script tags embedded WITHIN the HTML! No more building entire HTML documents from within Perl printf functions! Oh Joy. When Rasmus started developing an Apache plug-in (PHP/FI), I was certainly hooked. I developed my first ...
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When a user signs up at your website, you may want to verify their email address so you aren't getting bogus accounts in your database. A few lines of code can send an email to the address specified, containing a welcome greeting and link to activate their account. PHP is the best way to both send the emails and do the activation process. When the link in the email is clicked, a PHP page is loaded that performs a couple simple validation techniques, and if valid, it activates the account. PHP ...
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When building my website "Crossword Heaven" I came across a problem. I created a PHP object called "crossword" but needed to save the information in the object to a database. Now considering that this object contained a lot of information this was not an easy thing to do. Or was it? The answer: serialize(). What the serialize() function does is take something like an array or object and converts it into a string that can be stored in a database. All I had to do so that I could save ...
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Are you planning on using a PHP code generator to help you build your website or to add certain pages to your already existing site? If you are, then you need to know where to find help for using a code generator. Having help is vital because it will save you a lot of time and headaches. Where do you find online when you need it? There are a couple of different ways that you can use online to find the help you need. Use one of these ways or more than one until you have sufficient help for your ...
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If you are a beginner web designer, most probably you have had faced the difficulty to having some dynamic contents on your site, Just think about a small Guest book, some form to be submitted directly from your site, some dynamic results based on user's previous action''. All impossible with simple html! Although Java scripts can do some of your dynamic works, like automatic form submission by email etc, but this is just client side (all work done on the computer have your page loaded, ...
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Apache, MysQL and PHP for Windows could be a nice nice thing to have on your Windows workstation. You could try and experiment with all kinds of nice PHP and MySQL based applications right on your Windows desktop running Apache, instead of having to access a full-featured server. Most people have Windows as their workstation and it can be sometimes difficult to switch to another operating system. So, you may have always wanted to run PHP applications on your Windows machine but wondered if it ...
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Performing regular backups of your data may be an unattractive task but is still an extremely necessary one. Unfortunately, too many users do not realize how important it is to regularly backup data until disaster strikes and they suddenly find that they have lost almost all their valuable data. Microsoft has made life easier for all the users, by including a backup utility with Windows that allows you to backup data on a variety of media and with a variety of backup options. Microsoft Backup ...
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A PHP Redirect automatically transfers a web user from one URL to another. For example, typing foo.com in the browser automatically transfers the user to another URL bar.com. The PHP Redirect command: <?php header("location: [some-url]"); ?> Replace [some-url] with the URL where you want the redirection to take place. For example, header("location: ./version2/index.html"); =>redirect to "index.html" page in subfolder called "version2" header("location: http://www.yahoo.com"); =>redirect ...
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In this article I am going to cover some tools that you can use that will allow you to publish RSS feeds on your site. This will allow you to have fresh, updated content on your site and you have control of what sort of content you display and how often it is updated. First off if you do not know much about RSS or feel you require more information take a look at this RSS publishers FAQ and then rejoin us again later. There are several ways you can go about publishing RSS content, two of ...
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If Microsoft Outlook can not open your Outlook PST files as it normally does, then probably the PST files have got damaged or corrupted due to various reasons, thus buying your time by holding back all your important works and assignments! This is exactly where the role of Advanced Outlook Repair comes into play. With this piece of invaluable piece of tiny tool installed in your workstations, you can easily go ahead, start the program, and select the corrupt PST files and the required data to ...
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You've decided to automate your web site. Now what? Here are some ideas to help you choose how to automate your site. A bit of programming is going to be necessary if you want to automate a site. There are many types of programs that can be used to automate a web site including JavaScript, PHP, Perl, ASP, Java and more. So, which do you use? For many, it is a personal choice. I prefer PHP for programming. PHP is a particularly useful programming language because it allows for advanced ...
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Have you ever read any of the following? "Content is King." "Add Fresh Content Everyday To Get Your Site Visitors To Come Back" "Search Engines Like New, Fresh Content" "Add Dynamic Content To Your Site To Increase Your Site's Traffic" Are they true statements? Yes. So you look for a site that provides relevant content to your site automatically to increase your traffic and help you with your search engine listing. Now let me ask you, did you read the code you added to your site? Did the ...
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Displaying RSS RSS offers webmasters a unique opportunity to display fresh content on websites. While publishing an RSS feed is a great way to generate site interest and increase communication, syndicating and displaying feeds from related relevant sources can also generate interest, increase traffic and improve search engine ranking. RSS Radars Webmasters with limited time or capacity can syndicate related content. In a nut shell, webmasters can create RSS radars by combining a mix of content ...
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Think about your own surfing behavior. What types of websites do you visit the most often; which ones keep drawing you back? If you are like most internet surfers, you will spend much of your time hanging around websites with dynamic website content, or content that is updated constantly or personalized to your preferences. The age of static, archival websites is long gone, in in its place is a dynamic and powerful internet driven by PHP, ASP, CGI, and Java. But setting up a website with full ...
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There's a craze on the web at the moment, and that craze is named AJAX. What's that? Well, according to some people, it's a technology that's going to redefine the web. Just how many times have you heard that statement. The classic web application model works like this: Most user actions in the interface trigger an HTTP request back to a web server. The server does some processing -- retrieving data, crunching numbers, talking to various legacy systems -- and then returns an HTML page to the ...
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A Very simple PHP form processor that goes with the HTML form I created in the HTML forum. Thank You Lets get go through the explanation of this. You'll notice that I included the HTML tags as it's a good practice to get into. Most of you know how to begin a PHP statement by using , that's fairly simple. $date = date ("m/d/Y"); This line configures the date, I enjoy using this and putting it somewhere in the processor, mainly the subject, so I know what date the comments were sent in ...
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Much in the same way PHP can display dynamically generated content, PHP can change the whole look of your site. Through a template system and simple variable that sets a session containing the user's preferred template, you can make your site customizable to your visitors. Many sites do this simple procedure to insure a large percent of their visitors are content with the way their site looks. A template system generally consists of a header file, a body compilation process in a number of ...
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