Here is a simple port scanner written in PHP. It checks if a port is accessible by trying to connect to it using PHP's fsockopen function. The first foreach loop goes through the port numbers …
There are multiple ways to save application settings/configurations in PHP. You can save them in INI, XML or PHP files as well as a database table. I prefer a combination of the latter two; saving …
Here is a simple way to loop through a list of URLs, download the page and search the contents for a string. The script starts by checking if the post variable $_POST['urls'] is set. If …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
To display all the tags in a blog in page a plugin that runs PHP code in pages should be installed. I prefer Exec-PHP (http://bluesome.net/post/2005/08/18/50/) because its easy to use (you just type the PHP …