This article focuses on the
A short article on a fresh
A new method of text based
Did you know that require()
switch from Visual Basic to
look at templating, the
captcha to verify human
and include() work
PHP. Several examples are
correct way. Forget Smarty,
input in forms. Much more
differently? Both are used
presented.
forget Savant, this is how
accessible to screen readers
for including code in
you do it!
and very easy for humans to
another file into your
decipher (as opposed to some
program, but there is a
image based CAPTCHAs).
crucial difference in how
they operate when that file
cannot be read which any PHP
programmer needs to know
about. There's also a slight
difference with require()
between new and older
versions of PHP which this
tutorial discusses too.
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The Google Adsense
Scheduling events to run at
A function to get the
A simple way to check if a
administration section gives
certain times can be a
coordinates of an address
link is working or broken.
you some superficial stats.
useful feature. You may
using Google Geocodes. A
Want more detail? You gotta
want to backup your database
tutorial to demonstrate how
track hits yourself. This
or update a set of files you
to write a function that
tutorial will teach you how
have cached on your server
will get the coordinates of
to track the ads that have
or perform any number of
an address (mainly used to
been clicked; the pages they
other resource intensive
plot on Google Maps API).
were clicked on; and which
tasks. You can manually
visitors have been doing the
visit the page and this
clicking!
works fine if you have a
good memory, it isn't time
critical and it doesn't need
to be run several times a
day.
If you and your
task don't fit into all
those categories (and even
if you do but have better
things to do with your time)
a better alternative will be
to run your script using
cron.
In this article I
list the options for
scheduling a task to run
periodically and I go into
detail on running a script
with cron.
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