I’ve been wanting a magazine style template for my main website splash page for about six months. And I’d been wondering how those scrapers, scraped you rss feed into their blog. Sometimes procrastination is a good thing when I finally got around to looking into it all I found most of the pieces [...]
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How to add photos from Coppermine to any PHP page
September 22nd, 2008 by ljmacphee
Some asked how to add Coppermine photos to WordPress pages. This code will work for any page.
You need to replace MYSQL_SERVER with your database server, localhost usually works just fine.
USER_NAME is the user name for your Coppermine database
PASSWORD is the password for your Coppermine database
DATABASE_NAME is the name of your Coppermine database
Also replace YOUR_DOMAIN with [...]
How to force an HTTP error code from PHP
August 29th, 2008 by ljmacphee
If something happens in your php script you may want to force an HTTP error, rather than continue or redirect the user to another page. This is very simple to do. Just be sure the first line of output from your script to the browser is
header(’HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden’);
or
header(’HTTP/1.0 404 Not found’);
Or which [...]
Use PHP to add your Twitter feed to any page
August 18th, 2008 by ljmacphee
While I was building my wonder of me portal page for TimesToCome I thought it’d be neat to add in my twitter stream.
Here is some very simple PHP code to do so. Now I was lazy and I only check for one link in the tweet. 99% of the time that is [...]