All you know letting visitors/users invite their contacts is one of the cheapest but proven way of marketing. We can get it by placing a contact importer script in our site and requesting users to invite his/her friends by providing email address and password. The script will then contact the server and download contacts from [...]
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Putting site temporarily down and redirecting users to a maintenance page.
Today I needed this trick. I was having some problem with one of my sites. I want to turn the site down while I am fixing it. But as the site is made with scatter html, php pages, it is not easy to centrally control maintenance mode. But I believed, this is possible by .htaccess [...]
How to submit a form using PHP (cURL, fsockopen)
There are situations when you want to send data using POST to a URL, either local or remote. Why would you want to do this? Probably you want to submit data to an optin form, but without taking a valuable visitor away from your site. Or maybe you want to send data to several applications for various purposes, which would be impossible to do in the usual manner. So how can we deal with this problem?
My first plugin in wordpress plugin repo
May be nothing to be exicited. But its still a moment to remember. Today I have published my latest plugin in WordPress plugin repository. Though I have made two more open source plugins, I did not put them in the repo. But I wanted to put my latest plugin (Blog Post Reordering) to the repo [...]
WordPress Blog/Post Reorder
Until this plugin takes birth, the blog posts of WordPress were arranged on post’s date/time basis. The latest post will be in front and the earlier posts will sink.
From a few days, I was planning about this plugin. I am excited at this beta release of it.
Usage:
Using this plugin, posts can be reordered or reorganized. [...]
Red5 installation never been easiest!
Several times I have tried to install Red5 Streaming server in my linux box and I successfully failed during every try.
Today from morning I again started to try as success was my sheer determination. I planed I would surely find out a positive result. But no hope. I again failed to install it.
Later, while searching [...]
host your blog anywhere, using this 10 line proxy script
Just now Hasin Hayder, author of multiple books, has published a blog post how to host any wordpress.com blog virtually anywhere you wish. Using this simple script, you can host any wordpress.com blog in your own domain.
He wrote a simple proxy script and some codes in .htaccess file. Then the proxy script will fetch all [...]
Batch CHMOD for Dolphin Installation
This week, I am working with several installation of Dolphin Community Builder. I had to install Dolphin on several sites. The installation would be easy unless I had not to change permissions of so many nested files and folders. For the installation of Dolphin permissions need to be changed for about 92 files and folders. [...]
WordPress filter posts in homepage…
It happened to me that I have published a post in my blog. But for some reason I don’t like it to be displayed in homepage. So I was finding a solution but end with no result.
So I have developed a quite small plugin to do serve same purpose. Installation is simple. Just activate from [...]
Rounded corner without image?
If you are a fan of round corner box, I think, you do it using CSS and 4 related corner images matching your background.
See my latest design here at www.projanmo.com. The top menu has rounded corner. But believe me, I did not use even a single image to show the round corner there.
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WordPress Read Counter Plugin
WordPress Read/Hit Counter Plugin
When WordPress was in 1.5x tree, I have designed a WordPress theme. But I did not ever made a plugin for it though I have studied much on the plugin development system. Actually it was not needed. Every time I need something, I get it online :-). But today I thought [...]
Best flash charting script!
Uses of flash chart is getting popularity day by day. Many medium to big web applications may use flash chart. But small application may ignore it due to complexities of implemention of flash chart. Even some web developers may not familiar with flash to make flash chart.
To make it easy, there are several open source [...]
Integrating zencart with your CMSes
Should I tell you what Zen Cart is? I don’t think it is needed. Still if there is really someone who never heard about Zen Cart, the following lines are quoted for you from Zen Cart’s website :
Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce [...]
PunBB Thread Guide!
While moderating & administering the Projanmo Forum, I have seen many times that users opening thread in wrong forum/section. For example, they are opening a software troubleshooting thread in forum’s suggestion section.
I have seen in some vBulletin based forum that when opening a new thread, user has to confirm that he is posting in the [...]
PHP_SELF is empty!
Last two days, I am playing or learning to play with nginx web server. I have heard some reputation about it and saw some performance chart in the web. I liked it for its, as claimed, extremely low memory footprint for one of my small VPS.
After reading some tutorial in Projanmo Forum, I am successfully [...]