Archive for the 'Software' Category

Cache Page phpWebSite module 0.0.3

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Here’s an updated release of the Cache Page module for phpWebSite 0.10.2. Cache Page improves phpWebSite speed by about 6 times faster than without Cache Page.
phpWebSite 0.10.2 left out the pear lib/pear/Cache module, so I’ve included a copy of the pear module distributed with phpWebSite 0.10.1. Copy the patches/0.10.2/lib/pear/Cache directory included with Cache […]

Including Link Vault from SSI

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

When I wrote my previous post about Including Link Vault from Languages other than PHP, I wasn’t aware of a special quirk about Server Side Includes(SSI).
The #include virtual SSI element can be used to include the results of a program executed via a CGI interface. In this case, we use a PHP […]

Including Link Vault From Languages Besides PHP

Saturday, June 11th, 2005

Edited 9/13/05
See my post on a better method of including Link Vault from SSI.
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This should work to include the Link Vault client software from virtually any language including SSI.
Place this code in a file called wrapperXXXXXXXXX.php in the same directory as your lvXXXXXXXXX.php file. Replace the X’s with your security code.
<?php
// This is meant […]

Update to Link Vault Setup Software

Monday, May 30th, 2005

Updated 9/13/05:
Link Vault Client Software Beta Test
Download lvSecurityCode.zip version 1.4.01-5122117.
Make backup copies of your XXXXXXXXX.txt data file and lvXXXXXXXXX.php files before installing this version. It changes the data file format so the backups will make switching back (if needed) to the old version much easier.
Follow these instructions at the top of the file:
// Change […]

Link Vault Setup Code Update 1.3.06-5052709

Friday, May 27th, 2005

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 […]

Deleting Expired Announcements in phpWebsite

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

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 […]