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Introducing SofaDB, a pure PHP CouchDB Alternative
May 1st, 2010An introduction to our SofaDB project, which is a pure PHP alternative to Apache’s CouchDB project. Useful for storing non-relational data. Currently the project is in alpha stages.
Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) Study Guide Links
March 2nd, 2010The listing of items from ZCE for the exam, with relevant links compiled by Renowned Media.
PHP cURL Replacement
February 26th, 2010If you are a PHP developer who writes a lot of software which needs to be executed in many different shared hosts, it can often be frustrating when certain hosts don’t offer all of the functionality your applications require, specificially the cURL libraries. I’ve seen these missing on several hosts, either for security reasons or [...]
PHP cURL cookies not saving on Windows
January 17th, 2010Why cURL doesn’t work well with relative paths that PHP works fine with, and a workaround for the issue.
Short URL generator / Referrer hider
October 15th, 2009ezLINK.info has an easy to work with API for generating shorter links. Why might someone want to create shorter links? For one thing, long URLs with tons of GET based information can be cumbersome to work with, especially manually
RenownedDatabase Released, MySQL Database Manager
September 30th, 2009Today, we have released RenownedDatabase, an easily integrated MySQL Database manager. Please click here for a live demo, no authentication required. RenownedDatabase is an easy to integrate database manager. What this means is you, as a developer, can simplify the creation of your sites admin panel by simply installing RenownedDatabase in the backend. RenownedDatabase handles [...]
RenownedLyrics released, lyric database web application
September 25th, 2009RenownedLyrics is a fully featured lyrics web application. For a demo of a live website running this script, check out spiderlyrics.com. Download does not include a database of lyrics. The included layout differs slightly from the demo URL as the stock photos in the header were removed. Features: SEO URLs (e.g. lyrics-rammstein-du_hast.htm) Simple forums for [...]
RenownedLinks released, URL shortening application
September 24th, 2009Today, we’ve released RenownedLinks, the same application which runs the popular URL shortening service ezlink.info. RenownedLinks is a shorter URL web application written in PHP and MySQL. With the help of the included PDF manual, you can easily install this on your web host with little knowledge of web servers. Why would someone want to [...]
RenownedQuotes Released, quote voting web app for sale
September 22nd, 2009Today we have released RenownedQuotes for sale, the same application which powers ObsceneArt.net, a popular funny quote website. This download is basically an entire working website. Everything is easily configured using the master config.php file, along with documentation provided in a three page PDF document. Also included is the Photoshop PSD file for the layout [...]
RenownedStats released, web analyzer / page counter statistics
September 21st, 2009Today, Renowned Media has released a website visitor statistics application called RenownedStats. This application is much more than just a page counter, keep reading for more details. This application allows you to keep a close eye on the visitors to your website, including what websites are referring people to you, what people are searching for [...]
Change PHP Timezones
September 19th, 2009When working with dates, PHP uses the system time by default, which is dependent on the timezone the server is in. So, instead of doing tricky math with the results of the date function, you can simply change the timezone. Here is the function used to change the timezone: <?php putenv(“TZ=US/Detroit”); ?> One thing to [...]
PHP Class for creating CSS Graphs
September 18th, 2009We’ve developed a PHP Class for drawing a CSS graph. The CSS and XHTML code for this class was originally developed by Meyerweb, we just took it and wrapped a PHP class around it. This class is also hosted over at phpclasses.org if you prefer to get your stuff on that site, but keep in [...]
PHP Bargraph Generator
September 16th, 2009This script is loaded using an image tag and generates data based on information added as GET parameters. For example: <img src=”bar.php?value=100&max=256&info” /> Generates: This script requires at least four files to use. The first is an HTML file which loads the image (of course), the second is the background “bar.png” image which the graph [...]
How to change wordpress tag cloud font sizes
August 21st, 2009After tying to modify the tag cloud font sizes by hacking away at the CSS using tag-link-## and realizing it just wasn’t going to work no matter how hard we tried, we went a little deeper and change the inline font-sizes that wordpress was spitting out.
Genetic Algorithm Traveling Salesperson PHP
August 18th, 2009This is an implementation of the Traveling Salesman Genetic Algorithm which Thomas Hunter developed in PHP during his final year of college. It is available in the CodeVault: PHP Traveling Salesman Genetic Algorithm Sourcecode PHP Traveling Salesman Genetic Algorithm Example
Guide to installing ClipShare 4.1 on a Linux VPS
July 28th, 2009This guide is currently incomplete, and will likely stay incomplete since we didn’t keep notes and don’t plan on ever installing the application again. Hopefully these introductory steps will help. This is a technical guide detailing the steps a person has to go through to install ClipShare 4.1 on their web-server. Firstly, you’ll need a [...]
Amazon PHP Authentication Function
July 21st, 2009Amazon recently changed their requirements for sending information back and forth between you and them. This includes the addition of a hash which is used to authenticate your calls with a secret key. Here’s the message from the email: Dear Product Advertising API Developer, We wanted to remind you that all Product Advertising API developers [...]
PHP Framework Research: CodeIgniter
May 24th, 2009We’ve recently been researching several different PHP frameworks in the search for increased programming efficiency. After looking through Zend, CakePHP, and several other frameworks, it looks like we may have found a winner: CodeIgniter. CodeIgniter offers a lightweight, unobtrusive system which would increase programming efficiency after the initial learning curve has been reached. It’s memory [...]