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Piwik is a Open source web analytics application that has a huge number of valuable functions related to SEO and other analytics stuff built-in. One such module is RankChecker. This module provides page rank information for Google, Dmoz and Alexa. With some modification to the original RankChecker.php we can use it in our own application [...]
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- Tags: seo
Image plagiarism is one of the common issues faced by websites, specially by designers and photographers. Besides the technique of attaching a copyright text or a hidden watermark, the other most common method of preventing casual copying of images from websites is by disabling right-click using JavaScript. Another scheme I recently found uses a method [...]
Substring extraction of a long piece of text is a common element in web design, mostly in blogs and other CMS for displaying excerpts. The most common way to show an excerpt is to get n number of characters of the text, or n number of words. We will explore both ways. In PHP we [...]
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Transferring files over FTP using PHP is easily done using various PHP functions and cURL. However transferring files over SFTP raises various problems and is not easily supported via PHP and cURL. phpseclib provides a nice library wrapper that enables easy access to the sftp protocol and various cryptography functions. phpseclib is designed to be [...]
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Automatically extracting attachments from Gmail can be important for reasons where you need to process the attached files periodically with a CRON job. Also it can be useful for automatically archiving important attachments. Below is a simple proof-of-concept plain PHP code, devoid of any object-oriented features that extracts attachments from your Gmail account. It uses [...]
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- Tags: gmail
Although purists have always sneered upon PHP for being a “patched” language; the evolution of PHP over the years, with new features added in every version, has only increased its popularity. The latest 5.4 release has followed the trend with some major feature additions. The following post describes some important changes in PHP 5.4.
