So Dave (for better or worse) decided to try out the shiny new Vista discs we received the other day on his computer at work. As a Microsoft ActionPack subscriber we get all the cool new gear periodically in the post. Dave re-installs his computer quite frequently, so we’re well trained in the art of [...]

If you are using PHP 5 scripts on a 1AND1 hosting package, they willl be updating the current PHP version to cover a few security holes and you may have to update your PHP code accordingly to avoid any issues. This only for those using PHP 5. so on 7th and 08th December, their current [...]

ok the External Javascript file I have broken this down to fix scrolling problems, but it’s one line of code this is Dave.JS function replace(string,text,by) {var strLength = string.length, txtLength = text.length; if ((strLength == 0) || (txtLength == 0)) return string;var i = string.indexOf(text); if ((!i) && (text != string.substring(0,txtLength))) return string; if (i [...]

So we were looking for some hosting in the states for one of our sites, and we were frustrated that all the AdWords on Google.com were geotargeted to our UK IP address. So, I came up with dirty little hack to get the pages we wanted via one of our US servers, without the need [...]

On today’s Internet 2.0 there are all sorts of data feeds available for consumption. From APIs to RSS feeds, it seems like nearly every site has a machine-readable output. There are many reasons why you’d want to collect this information, which I won’t go in to, so in this post I’m going to walk you [...]

why does this work in google ?? ok what do you need to know PHP: $agent=$_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]; ASP : sUserAgent= Request.ServerVariables(“HTTP_USER_AGENT”) OK this will get RETURN you a User Agent, Btw Google’s UA is Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) PHP code and usage : Continue Reading

Well in absense of Dave posting anything on here, I thought I’d mention something about what I’ve been up to on the ground. In reality nothing much interesting has been going on. I’ve been doing some websites for clients, very boring. One of them is particularly encroaching on my mammaries. I have a new server, [...]

Mini fetch Code < ? $theLocation=”http://www.wired.com/”; preg_match(“/^(https?://)?([^/]*)(.*)/i”, “$theLocation”, $matches); $theDomain = “http://” . $matches[2]; $page = $matches[3]; $fd = fopen($theDomain.$page, “rb”); $value = “”; while(!feof($fd)){ $value .= fread($fd, 4096); } fclose($fd); $start = strpos($value, ““); $finish = strpos($value, ““); $length = $finish – $start; $value = substr($value, $start, $length); $FinalOutput = preg_replace(“/(href=”?)(/[^"/]+)/”, “1″ . $theDomain [...]