March 17th : Manic Monday

Manic Monday Ah another monday ,had a good weekend? I have! I’ve been working on my retrolog.net project and the list of ideas is just growing bigger and bigger, but at this moment I just have to focus on the main features, otherwise nothing gets done.
I have a surprise for for some of you. Yesterday evening I have been working on a little tutorial to make an graphical counter. I will write about it furter on this evening as I have to clean-up some of the code, zip it up, drop it on the server, and make an live demo for you to see it work, I’ll promise you that you are going to like it.

I call it  “super_easy_to_use_graphical_counter” . Just check back here in a few hours! oh and how is your monday,any good? let me know!

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PHP :WORDPRESS : Place banner between posts

WordpressI thought it would be nice to share you a little piece of script that I use on this website, with this modification in my theme I can show banners where i want them to be, I’ve decided to do this to keep some load off the sidebox, and some banners between posts are real eye catchers! Applying these changes requires basic programming skills and should not take any longer than 10 minutes.

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PHP : Foreach function for multi level array’s

PHP Logo Valerie Joy posted an article about Array’s on her blog. She handles the basics of array construction and how to translate the array to string with the php build-in foreach function.
Now it would be nice to show you how to handle multi-level array’s and how you can construct an function to translate these array’s to string.

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PHP : Smallest RSS feed script

PHP Logohi, normally when I need to fetch an RSS feed in private project I used some old script based on the php function fopen. But with my current Host (Dreamhost) fopen is dissables for various security reason, they however adviced to use the cURL library, I wasn’t familiar with it but after some reading and testing I’ve build an super small feedreader, well see for yourself . (Oh and you need to have the XML parser module installed on your server).

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