Here is a simple way to loop through a list of URLs, download the page and search the contents for a string. Read more…
Archive for PHP
Download And Search Multiple Pages Using PHP
Backup MySQL Databases to Amazon S3 Using PHP
With a few lines of PHP code and S3tool’s s3cmd command-line tool you can backup your MySQL databases automatically to Amazon’s S3. To use this script you’ll need SSH access to your server. First download s3cmd and upload it to your server. Installation is straight forward. The PHP code is simple: Read more…
Creating a Delicious Submission Link in PHP
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Creating a Delicious (del.icio.us) submission link is similar to Digg’s, with the exception of the page title that can be sent to Delicious, which is not required, but you’ll save the users from having to type it or copy/paste it.
Creating a Digg Submission Link in PHP
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Creating a Digg submission link in PHP is easy since all the parameters Digg expects are included in the URL. Digg like most other social bookmarking tools does not allow complete automation of submissions. It requires the visitor to manually click the submit button to prevent spamming.
Customizing the AddThis WordPress Plugin
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My favorite WordPress plugin for bookmarking/sharing is AddThis. It looks good and provides comprehensive statistics. But unlike Shareaholic’s SexyBookmarks plugin, which allows you to display any number of the available services (bookmarking or sharing sites, e.g. Digg), AddThis plugin only displays 4. So I modified it by adding a few lines of code to make it display more services and thought others might want to do the same.
Displaying the Number of Visits in a WordPress Blog Post
I thought it would be a good idea to show how many visits a blog post had since it was published. One of the web tracking tools I use is WordPress.com Stats, and it’s the easiest to get the page view count from. So after some googling I found the best way to do so is to use the WordPress.com Stats Helper plugin and two lines of PHP code to display the number. Read more…




