This article is the first in a series of how-to articles which will go through all the steps required to create a wordpress plugin. At the end of the article, there will be a download link to a working plugin that you can download and use as a template for building your own plugins. [...]

Rawtracker is an application written in PHP that you can add to your website that allows your users to track their United States Postal Service (USPS) packages. Installation Step 1: Upload all files from the rawtracker download to your website. Step 2: Open plugins/configure.php and add your USPS account information. define("USPS_SERVER","http://production.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPI.dll"); define("USPS_USERNAME","***Your usps username goes here***"); define("USPS_TIMEOUT",'5'); You will need to [...]

The following are tools that are invaluable to any php developer: 1) PHP Development Tools Project (eclipse) Link: http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/ The PDT project provides a PHP Development Tools framework for the Eclipse platform. This project encompasses all development components necessary to develop PHP and facilitate extensibility. It leverages the existing Web Tools Platform (WTP) and Dynamic Languages Toolkit (DLTK) [...]

Introduction This module allows you track all of the keywords used to search you website. This can be helpful because it can give you an insight into what your customers actually need. Installation Step 1: Open admin/includes/boxes/report_dhtml.php at line 20 where it says: $za_contents[] = array('text' => BOX_REPORTS_CUSTOMERS_REFERRALS, 'link' => zen_href_link(FILENAME_STATS_CUSTOMERS_REFERRALS, '', 'NONSSL')); add right after: $za_contents[] = array('text' => 'Rawseo Local [...]

If you own a website of any kind and have ever wanted to allow your users to upload multiple files from a single screen, you have a few choices: a java applet an active X control A Flash app multiple file input elements (which is messy and not very efficient) The following is a much easier way to allow [...]

If you own a website of any kind and have ever wanted to allow your users to upload multiple files from a single screen, you have a few choices: 1) a java applet 2) an active X control 3) A Flash app 4) multiple file input elements (which is messy and not very efficient) The following is a much [...]

This is a mod for oscommerce: A free shopping cart system written in PHP. More info about this shopping cart is available here. Introduction This mod allows you to view all of the keywords used to search your site. These are searchable by date through the admin interface and are logged to a database [...]

Introduction This module allows you track all of the keywords used to search you website. This can be helpful because it can give you an insight into what your customers actually need. Installation Step 1: Import rawseo_keyword_reports.sql into your oscommerce database. Step 2: Upload everything in the admin directory to your oscommerce admin directory. Step 3: open advanced search results.php at [...]

Introduction This module allows you track all of the keywords used to search you website. This can be helpful because it can give you an insight into what your customers actually need. Installation Step 1: Import rawseo_keyword_reports.sql into your oscommerce database. Step 2: Upload everything in the admin directory to your oscommerce admin directory. Step 3: open advanced search results.php at [...]

The following is a mix of commercial and free applications that can help you get more out of your google analytics account. 1) Polaris (adobe air app) Polaris is a cross-platform adobe air app for Google Analytics. Features Cross-platform and easy to setup Dashboard gives you an overview of total visits, pageviews, pages/visit, bounce rate, average time on site, [...]

What is caching? Caching is used to speed up a call to display() or fetch() by saving its output to a file. If a cached version of the call is available, that is displayed instead of regenerating the output. Caching can speed things up tremendously, especially templates with longer computation times. Since the output of display() [...]

Why use mysql instead of access? Cost. MySQL is free. Access is not. Mysql can also run on a variety of hardware and operating systems, which does not limit you to proprietary software. Multiple-user access. MySQL can handle many simultaneous users. It was designed from the ground up to run in a shared environment that is capable of [...]

There comes a time in every system administrator’s life when they must face a harsh reality. Your company’s webserver has had a major harddrive failure and it needs to be running again as quickly as possible. I came up with a solution that is fairly simple to execute and is hardware independent. Disclaimer: I have [...]

Why use smarty templates? One of Smartys primary design goals is to facilitate the separation of application code from presentation. Typically, the application code contains the business logic of your application, written and maintained in PHP code. This code is maintained by programmers. The presentation is the way your content is presented to the end user, [...]

What is google products? Many people don’t know that google has a search engine designed for products called google products. This service can be used to get more traffic to products on your website. The first step is to signup with google base. Next, You can start adding your products. There are a few [...]

What is Open Commerce? From oscommerce.com: “osCommerce is the leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no [...]

Google recently released a document on how to improve PHP performance here. Most of the tips listed here will not help you improve performance by any significant amount. The following is a list of things that you can do that will improve the performance of your web apps significantly. 1) object code caching Each time a [...]

What is authorize.net? The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway is a secure Internet bridge between merchant businesses and the credit card and electronic check payment processing networks. We provide merchants with fast, reliable and secure passage for transaction data via a 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Internet Protocol (IP) connection, and manage the complex routing of payment information [...]

The following is a library that allows you to generate zip file archives using php. <?php include('ziplib.php'); $zipfile = new Ziplib; $zipfile->zl_add_file('This is a test file','path/to/file','g9'); //You can stream the ZIP file or write it in a file on your server header('Content-type: application/zip'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\'testfile.zip\''); echo $zipfile->zl_pack('zip file comments'); ?> This script will dynamically create a zip archive using the files specified with zl_add_file [...]

Microsoft recently announced a new program (called BizSpark) for startups that allows them to get a MSDN for free. This is a great deal, because msdn subscriptions normally cost over $1000/year (depending on the type plan that you buy). You can also renew for up to 3 years (unless your comapny goes [...]