Gotta love a white christmas. Usually we don’t get much snow until January, but this year we are abundantly blessed with the white stuff. I’ve heard rumors we’ve gotten as much as 10 inches. This first image is my favorite picture. It’s looking at the creek southwest of our house.
This view of […]
This is a beta release 1.3.06-5052709 of the php Link Vault setup code that uses the fsockopen() function instead of the fopen() function to access the Link Vault server.
To try it out, you’ll have to edit the following two lines of code at the top of the file to include your Link Vault settings, and […]
phpWebsite announcements have an expiration date used to determine when to stop displaying them. After they stop displaying, the announcements simply remain in the database until they are deleted manually. This is my solution to delete expired announcements automatically.
Rather than include something in the phpWebsite code that checks for expired records every time […]
After using the the cache_page module for over a week on the City of Rolfe website, I new it was faster, but hadn’t done suitable testing to find out how much faster. When I finally took the time for testing, I was quite pleased with the result. Under normal server load, pages served from […]
cache_page uses php output buffering to capture the output of phpWebSite and store it in a cache in the files/cache_page/cache directory. Pages are identified based on the request_uri. The next time the same request_uri is received, the stored page will be served from the cache instead of being dynamically generated by phpwebsite.
See a […]
This overview of what people are saying about Google AutoLinks compiled by kuro5hin.org (via Phil) presents many different points of view.
From what I see, it’s not so much about modifying the content as fiddling with traffic. I have a right to direct the traffic that comes to my website as I see fit.
I’ve seen some people compare AutoLinks to having a butler that anticipates your needs and finds information for you just in case you might want to use it. I think a better analogy is comparing a website to a store and your website traffic to people in your store.