Automatically post to Facebook from PHP script
jhnidk - December 15th, 2010 in: Facebook
Facebook is currently on of the most important publishing and traffic generating sources for many websites. Manually Cross publishing content on your own site and Facebook seems like a lot of extra work.
This post guides you through the creation of a Facebook application that can automatically post messages and other types of content on your Facebook wall.
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Twitter OAuth the easy way – simple post to twitter script
jhnidk - December 2nd, 2010 in: PHP, twitter
After Twitter introduced mandatory authentication with OAuth, many of the current scripts for posting content to Twitter don’t work anymore.
OAuth can be great for more advanced authentication, but for a simple post to twitter script, it seems like a little overkill.
In this post you’ll learn how to create a simple script that uses a quick and dirty version of OAuth for posting new tweets to Twitter.
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Use PHP, MySql and Google Map API v3 for displaying data on map
jhnidk - October 12th, 2010 in: Mapping, MySQL, PHP
Displaying data on maps can be useful in many situations.
By integrating tools like PHP, MySQL and Google Maps, you can relatively easy build customized maps for your website or blog.
In this post we’ll take a closer look on the possibilities, and build a interactive map based on PHP, MySql and Google Map API v3.
To see what we’re building, see live example here
Automatically update copyright text each year
jhnidk - September 27th, 2010 in: PHP, WordPress
Having a copyright notice somewhere on your pages is always a good idea.
However to keep the copyright notice valid and ensure that your site looks professional, it needs to be updated each new year.
With the little trick in this post, you can insert a small piece of PHP that automatically updates your copyright text in your website or WordPress powered blog.
Ajax autocomplete with jquery and php
jhnidk - September 14th, 2010 in: jQuery, MySQL, PHP
With a autocomplete script you can make it easier for your users to provide valid input for a from, by providing suggestions as soon as the users starts to type in the first data.
In this post we’ll implement a autocomplete script, that uses jquery, ajax, PHP and MySQL for a smooth and easy to configure autocomplete solution.
Measure PHP page loading time
jhnidk - August 25th, 2010 in: MySQL, PHP
A important part of the users experience, when visiting a website, is the page loading time.
However loading times has been even more important to focus on after the latest updates of the Google ranging algorithm, where slow loading sites will get a penalty, and fast loading sites will get a bonus.
In this post we’ll create a PHP script that can be used to measure the loading time of a PHP page.
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Create your own php capcha script in 10 min
jhnidk - August 17th, 2010 in: PHP
Spam is unfortunately a problem for many webmasters. One of the favorite methods for spammers is to use web forms without any kind of spam protection.
A form can be spam protected very effective by adding a captcha field that requires the user to enter a security code before the form can be submitted.
In this post you’ll learn to create a simple PHP based form that has a built in captcha for spam protection.
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