Web Programming

This section is all about web development, helping programmers to develop the best sites possible.

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How to Flatten a PHP POST Array

19 Jul 2010

The situation is this: You have a PHP script that takes POST data, and you need to pass that data on to a remote server. How do you do it? ...

Show Bots the Content to Index

17 Jul 2010

There are a few ways to tell bots whereabouts the content is on your web page: Google ad section targeting: What is section targeting and ...

Facebook Bot User-Agent

17 Jul 2010

Here's a user-agent you'll need to add to your list of robots: facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php) I ...

Efficiently decode a short url

11 Jul 2010

I am building a reference of short urls, and for each one need to record its final destination url, server software and page title. Curl almost ...

Behind the bit.ly url

08 Jul 2010

If you want to know more about what a bit.ly url refers to, here is a PHP function that may be of use to you. It first checks what the destination ...

Implementing Facebook OpenGraph

25 Jun 2010

Facebook makes its new Graph interface sound so simple, but what about Facebook OpenGraph? This is where third-party web sites specify extra ...

Sitemaps in robots.txt File

08 Jun 2010

Give your carefully created sitemap a mention in your robots.txt file. You simply use this format: Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap ...

GIMP: Removing Background From Photo

06 Jun 2010

You can use the GIMP image manipulation program (with some dexterity and a lot of staring) to remove the background from a photo. The best guide ...

Media Temple Proactive Against DoS

22 Jan 2010

I have some mixed opinions of Media Temple tonight. On the one hand, I was completely unable to access swinny.net (IMAP/SSH/HTTP) or domains ...

Google's Spooky Robots

31 Oct 2009

Google has enhanced their robots.txt file, in a hope of getting more treats and fewer tricks. Let's see if the kids do as they're told! Judging ...

Memcached and PHP

22 Oct 2009

There are plenty of resources out there on getting PHP and memcache to work together, and a basic installation and configuration should pose ...

Video Sitemaps For Google Search

10 Aug 2009

Read about creating Google video sitemaps

Fresh Start for Swinny.net @MediaTemple

31 May 2009

Swinny.net has been hosted on MyServerWorld.com (previously part of HostEurope, now Pipex) for many years, since 2001 in fact. Performance and ...

Alert! Domain Renewal Group on the Prowl

20 May 2009

Be on your guard! The Domain Renewal Group sends renewal letters to domain holders, when domains are nearing their renewal date. The letters ...

OAuth so Awful!

24 Apr 2009

In the space of a fortnight, Twitter has suffered two nasty vulnerabilites that allow unauthorised account access. First it was a user's ability ...