WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a easy by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you give it. Unfortunately, the latest release doesn’t work very well, by itself or on Wordpress 2.5. Watch out for my post on fixing Wordpress 2.5 issues.
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A quick update on people that need the Crawl Rate Tracker to work with Wordpress 2.5 - just create the table manually.

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I really like Patrick Altoft’s Crawl Rate Tracker Plugin for Wordpress. I rolled it out on many of my sites and more of my client’s sites. I even used it on this site.

But my love for it was prematurely cut short. (more…)

A client recently requested an option to extract search results from their PHP application as CSV. It had me confused for a while, I was writing wrappers, writing out files, changing directory permissions, until I had a lightbulb moment.
There is no reason why you can’t have the browser do all the work for you. (more…)

I’ve decided to mirror the ADOdb Documentation as the developers have taken it offline due to bandwidth restrictions.

ADOdb Library for PHP

This universal modification allows you to show your products side by side on the “View Category” page instead of the usual table top to bottom view.
Works with both CubeCart 3 and CubeCart 4. (more…)

This modification is for CubeCart 3.
It will show all the products belong to the subcategories on the main category page. Confused? Check out the image, it explains all!
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Here’s how I keep on top of updating the GeoIP binary databases used by various scripts and applications I use.

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Following on from a previous post, “PHP Geo-IP Location in 4 lines”, I’ve had a look at stalking people a bit more. Here’s how to lookup their location specific to city.

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I’ve just noticed a new(-ish) package on PEAR, called Text_Spell_Audio. It generates sound clips speaking the contents of a string.

It’s especially useful for home brew CAPTCHA applications and such.

I always enjoy seeing different solutions to the same problem - on a previous article of mine, I did a very similar job. See KB_CAPTCHA - CAPTCHA Image Generation in PHP for more details.