A blend of programming and seo

Anatomy of a wordpress plugin

This article is the first in a series of how-to articles which will go through all the steps required to create a wordpress plugin. At the end of the article, there will be a download link to a working plugin that you can download and use as a template for building your own plugins. [...]

rawtracker 1.1 released

Rawtracker is an application written in PHP that you can add to your website that allows your users to track their United States Postal Service (USPS) packages. Installation Step 1: Upload all files from the rawtracker download to your website. Step 2: Open plugins/configure.php and add your USPS account information. define("USPS_SERVER","http://production.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPI.dll"); define("USPS_USERNAME","***Your usps username goes here***"); define("USPS_TIMEOUT",'5'); You will need to [...]

Must-have tools for php developers

The following are tools that are invaluable to any php developer: 1) PHP Development Tools Project (eclipse) Link: http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/ The PDT project provides a PHP Development Tools framework for the Eclipse platform. This project encompasses all development components necessary to develop PHP and facilitate extensibility. It leverages the existing Web Tools Platform (WTP) and Dynamic Languages Toolkit (DLTK) [...]

Zencart local seo reports mod

Introduction This module allows you track all of the keywords used to search you website. This can be helpful because it can give you an insight into what your customers actually need. Installation Step 1: Open admin/includes/boxes/report_dhtml.php at line 20 where it says: $za_contents[] = array('text' => BOX_REPORTS_CUSTOMERS_REFERRALS, 'link' => zen_href_link(FILENAME_STATS_CUSTOMERS_REFERRALS, '', 'NONSSL')); add right after: $za_contents[] = array('text' => 'Rawseo Local [...]

How to create a multi-file uploader for your website

If you own a website of any kind and have ever wanted to allow your users to upload multiple files from a single screen, you have a few choices: a java applet an active X control A Flash app multiple file input elements (which is messy and not very efficient) The following is a much easier way to allow [...]

Oscommerce local search mod

Introduction This module allows you track all of the keywords used to search you website. This can be helpful because it can give you an insight into what your customers actually need. Installation Step 1: Import rawseo_keyword_reports.sql into your oscommerce database. Step 2: Upload everything in the admin directory to your oscommerce admin directory. Step 3: open advanced search results.php at [...]

oscmax local search report mod

Introduction This module allows you track all of the keywords used to search you website. This can be helpful because it can give you an insight into what your customers actually need. Installation Step 1: Import rawseo_keyword_reports.sql into your oscommerce database. Step 2: Upload everything in the admin directory to your oscommerce admin directory. Step 3: open advanced search results.php at [...]

5 must-have google analytics apps

The following is a mix of commercial and free applications that can help you get more out of your google analytics account. 1) Polaris (adobe air app) Polaris is a cross-platform adobe air app for Google Analytics. Features Cross-platform and easy to setup Dashboard gives you an overview of total visits, pageviews, pages/visit, bounce rate, average time on site, [...]

How to cache smarty templates

What is caching? Caching is used to speed up a call to display() or fetch() by saving its output to a file. If a cached version of the call is available, that is displayed instead of regenerating the output. Caching can speed things up tremendously, especially templates with longer computation times. Since the output of display() [...]

How to migrate from Microsoft access to Mysql

Why use mysql instead of access? Cost. MySQL is free. Access is not. Mysql can also run on a variety of hardware and operating systems, which does not limit you to proprietary software. Multiple-user access. MySQL can handle many simultaneous users. It was designed from the ground up to run in a shared environment that is capable of [...]