SMS (also known as text-messaging) has grown into a very popular method of communication. It has been around in Europe and Asia since the early nineties and its use is steadily increasing in the US as well. SMS stands for "Short Message Service" and uses mobile phones to transmit (surprise, surprise) short messages to and from mobile phones and whilst many of us might not know this, it...
E-mail newsletters are a very popular method of maintaining an open channel of communication with your site visitors. They have the great benefit of keeping a site's current user base up-to-date on the latest news and offerings from the organization. Moreover, they have the potential for turning site visitors into site customers or donators. For newsletters to be successful logistically, they...
This tutorial will show You how to generate google sitemaps based on Your site MySQL structure. I hope this tutorial will save up some time. First we have to make our map skeleton with some needed stuff (for example database connection)
When a search engine visits the dynamic url like product.php?id=5 it does not give much importance to that URL as search engine sees “?” sign treat it as a url which keeps on changing. so we’re converting the dynamic URL like the product.php?id=5 to static url format like product-5.html. We’ll rewrite the url in such a way that in browser’s address bar it will display as a product-5.html but it...
This tutorial focuses on a thumbnail generation script I wrote for the Accidental President site. Rather than generating a smaller representation of the image, it cuts out a section of the photograph to create an obscure snapshot of the photo itself. The thumbnail's size is variable also, so the script be used across different sites to create different sized thumbnails where needed.
For this script we will be creating a PHP function to generate the code. I will not discuss functions in great detail here and so I will presume you know pretty much what they are and how and why they are useful. Put simply, using a function to do the work you can use it from anywhere in your application and therefore do not need to rewrite code. I will also presume you know where to put the...
New tutorial description Now that we have our first simple class we're going to modify it a bit.We're going to use the same class and function as in the last tutorial, but these will be slightly modified. We're going to make it where we can do different code based on the variables passed to the function. Again I'll refer to my db class as an example.
You will set up your Dreamweaver MX site, connect to the database, create the DataSet for the DataGrid, and create a default DataGrid. In the following three articles, you will build on what you learn in this article and learn how to customize the DataGrid appearance, make the DataGrid editable, and sort columns in the DataGrid. By the end of the article, you will be comfortable working with...
This tutorial will teach you all of the basic string functions available in ASP using VBScript. I will keep things concise as possible. The following is a list of the functions and an example of each. I hope you will enjoy it.
A randomizer is a powerful tool when scripting and programming. Here is a simple but powerful one for ASP.First of all you need to randomize something wich can be done by the command Randomize. You could either just ranomize a number out of nothing by just calling Randomize, but the way to create the "most random" number is to use the servers clock like this:
AIM profile designs provide us with new possibilities. And this Aim Profile Screenname Viewer tutorial will show you how to make a script to see who has seen your AOL Instant Messenger profile.First, make a file called "sn.html" inside a folder (I've chosen my database folder even though this is a flat file). Leave it blank. Be very attentive while making changes to AIM profile...
Learn how to make a hit counter in ASP. A hit counter is an essential part of a site to know how many people are coming to site. Here is an easy way to make a counter. All you need is access to ASP and be able to give a write access to a directory. We're going to save the amount of hits in a .txt file so that we won't need to worry about database connections.
If you run Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 Workstation you can install Personal Web Server (PWS). PWS is a smaller scale little brother of Internet Information Services (IIS) though still fully functional. As Personal Web Server (PWS) is not shipped with Windows NT or with Windows 95 you will have to download "Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack" from Microsoft. To download the Windows...
Here it is broken down: The first two lines declare the variables Conn and SQLTemp. The next six lines open a connection to your database, and get all the rows from the table. The following Do While Not loop lets u display the data inside the row. The next four lines print out the value of each column in that row. The last bit moves to the next row, ends the loop, and closes the connection to the...
Perl is an acronym, short for Practical Extraction and Report Language. It was designed by Larry Wall as a tool for writing programs in the UNIX environment and is continually being updated and maintained by him. For its many fans, Perl provides the best of several worlds