Creating Your Own URL Shortening Service With YOURLS

YOURLS (stands for Your Own URL Shortener) is a set of PHP scripts that allow you to create your own URL shortening service. Like most scripts its requirements Apache with Mod_Rewrite, PHP and MySQL which …

3 Affordable Stock Photography and Vector Art Websites

As a web developer and blogger I'm always looking for affordable photos and illustrations to use in CodeHill and the other websites I work on. I've been using these three stock photography websites for a …

Streaming Music and Videos with GNUMP3d

I have been trying different streaming servers the past few days for a project I'm working on. Out of the ones I tested so far none was as easy to install and configure as the …

Detect if you are Running a Virtual Machine

Would you like to know if your server's OS is running on bare-metal or on a virtual machine. imvirt and virt-what are 2 Linux scripts that allow you to do so easily. Both are open …

Banning IPs using .htaccess

One of the many features the file .htaccess provides for a website is the ability to ban IP addresses or ranges of IP addresses from accessing it. This could be useful when a spambot, scrapper …

2 Ways to Redirect URLs in PHP

  • 05/03/2010
  •   PHP
The ability to redirect URLs in PHP can be very handy. A common use of redirects is when a page has become obsolete and you would like to redirect the user to a more current …