Content published in August, 2007

Update: Nogenius warned me about a bug which I just crushed. GETs didn't work after POSTs. The fix is commented in the code. Search nogenius. Thanks!

I expanded the previous sample of Basic cUrl and PHP Usage and converted it to a class for easy further updates. I also added the headers processing which can be useful to handle cookies. It is now easier to use but basic PHP knowledge is required.

strip_tags php function to strip html tags from text has some small issues which lead me to write my own replacement for it. It might come in handy to many of you good PHP coders out there.

This is an updated version so if you got it already overwrite it with this new one.

After the article explaining the method I coded this easy to use PHP script that does the trick for you and also caches the results for further use. This way your site will not be slowed down at all.

A photograph certified as real proofs that ghosts do exist and they have been paying attention to us as we did to them. Given their advanced techonology ghosts made faster progress.

A ghost movie worth seeing with a dose of skepticism. N-Joy!

MPAA wants you to pay! And considering the legal hassle they had to go through against copyright infringers they decided to go online and push their new forgiveness online mega-store to all the unwilling 'customers'.

Fang Gamepad by Ideazon

My personal experience with the Fang Gamepad by Ideazon. Learn the bad and the excellent about this keypad that any gamer should own. See how it managed to boost my gaming performance!

PHP has gzencode but lacks the gzdecode version. So here it is!

A referee that virtually sabotaged one team during the entire match got a player to crack and choke him on the field!

Amazing! This video is mind-numbing! Such a beautiful girl and … just beautiful.

The poor girl was instructed to get a certain keyword density on global hot topics and she did so by graceful self-sacrifice!

Use this easy PHP function to parse HTML for hyperlinks and list them along with their attributes.

Good method to check on link exchange partners or count links or external links on a page.

Free open-source simple Ip2Country PHP class that allows you to translate any valid ip address to a country code and act in your visitors best interest.

Easy to integrate in your site, plug-in and play functionality.

Many webdesigners and web programmers fail to understand their webpages can be split into several easily maintainable entities. So they end up building each page as a standalone. Guess what: further maintenance and updates will be a nightmare!

Any website/page consists of repetitive section such as page header, page footer and navigation menu which can be broken into separate files and once updated they will change all across the site.

Ever wondered if the googlebot user agent that is just crawling your site is really googlebot? Search engines implemented an easy way to verify them using a round DNS query on both host and IP address.

Saving bandwidth and protecting sensitive information is piece of cake.

Check out two see cute yet somehow freaky videos with cats and dogs!

The Universe seems to have a void space of 1 billion light years across. That space seems to contain the proverbial nothing ... and by nothing it really means nothing.

I long awaited for this moment and it finally arrived. They've announced the 3rd part of one of my favourite movies Resident Evil 3 - Extinction.

Having the bad habbit of doing small but important changes live on my site I managed to issue robots the error code that gives one the chills: 403 [Forbidden Access] . The official specifications say when you send a 403 you say : resource exists but not for you! So the robots should stop visiting it.

Learn what really happens.

I don't know about you but I do take Zodiac Signs seriously. I know that the position of the stars at our birth will influence our Personalities and entire Lives.

This ad got me to write this short piece of free advice.

I'm more then sure this software will not only verify your email addresses but they will also share them with thrid parties interested in spamming the living hell out of them!

Often you need to check if an email is valid and if you can send to it prior to accpeting it as valid. This is the solution you need.

How most of the web content is duplicated and triplicated and replicated so many times. Scrapers steal your content and post it as fresh.

Do you really think there are billions of original pages indexable out there?

I was working on this site and had to deal with a small problem of using a lot of global variables on some internal functions. I found a cheap trick to handle this.

The PHP code mentioned in the Tutorial will import all global variables into your PHP script function and allow you to use any of them without the need to declare them one by one.

I have just returned from vacation big as bad 10x as tanned and ready to write a lot more.

So stick around for the next few days for all the fresh stuff.

I'm leaving on vacation. 2007 has been a busy year and I diserve a break. You diserve a break too.

So do not worry if your comments do not show up. I'll review them as soon as I return.