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How does Wordpress handle friendly URLs?

Darko — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:19:54 +0000

Not so long time ago, I wrote about handling friendly URLs for your own site using Apache (it’s URL rewrite engine, and .htaccess file) and PHP – “Friendly URL, the easy way”. In the meantime I was doing some changes to .htaccess file for one of my Wordpress installations, and what made me thinking was how [...]

Read XML files in PHP

Darko — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:34:59 +0000

XML is very nice format for storing and especially transferring data between applications. Instead of old plain TXT files which you must parse from a strictly defined format, XML files gives your data 2nd dimension – a structure, so you basically “know” what data represents without need for parsing and cleaning it from rubbish. Everybody is [...]

Simple AJAX is getting advanced

Darko — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:42:42 +0000

In one of my previous posts – Simple AJAX example, I explained a few steps that will help you enter the web 2.0 development world using famous AJAX method. In that example we were submiting a HTML form with POST method using XmlHttpRequest and then processing the request server-side using PHP and getting some results back [...]

Secure your Flash-PHP connection

Darko — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:10:07 +0000

If you’re working on a Flash game in which you are saving player score in a database, you might wanna consider applying some security to it :) As I know, you cannot access MySQL database directly from Flash, so you’ll need to do some ActionScripting and call an external script to do it for you. For [...]

Building an ideal homepage

Darko — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:57:19 +0000

For the past few months (or more) I’ve been building something I’d like to call “an ideal homepage“. Very hard task to do, but I’m sure I will come close to the idea with the project, sooner or later… I even got “ideal” domain name for the project – naslovnice.com (this is a croatian plural for [...]

Upgrade large phpBB2 to phpBB3

Darko — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:13:53 +0000

By “large” I mean a forum with database of 300+ MB in size. One of my clients wanted to change hosting company as his website grow over the past few years and he wasn’t satisfied with GoDaddy’s shared hosting, but also with GoDaddy service at all… So I recommended him a MediaTemple grid hosting as I’m there [...]

Moving a project to another domain name

Darko — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:11:00 +0000

Moving a project from one domain to another is something you should avoid. Unless it is really necessary – just don’t do it :) But, maybe you sold a domain and want to transfer a project to another domain name. Then you have a lot of things to do. I’ll show you here a few steps [...]

SuperBaby.org overview, 1+ year after

Darko — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:57:52 +0000

It’s been now more then a year that my wife and I released a new parenthooding forum in Croatia – www.superbaby.org. Since then, forum became one of the most popular chat&help machines in Croatia for everybody who is and will become a parent. At this point of time we are counting more then 1.600 registered members, more [...]

Google AdSense for Domains

Darko — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:26:04 +0000

Did you noticed a new AdSense feature? Well, now you can park your domains on Google and have them paid within AdSense paycheck. I’ll try this with one or two domains, just to see how it’ll go, and I get better results then with Parked.com I’ll probably redirect all of my domains. As I’ve seen for now, [...]

Simple AJAX example

Darko — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:20:04 +0000

Once I created my first AJAX “application” (also based on some simple tutorial) I just can’t stop thinking of AJAX methodology and it’s usage all over the projects. What is AJAX actually? By definition – Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, a technique used in web application development. In general it is a combination of XHTML and JavaScript. How it [...]