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Polymorphism, Abstract Classes, and Interfaces in PHP

November 17th, 2009


This article will explain the advanced topics of PHP classes, including polymorphism, abstract classes, and interfaces.

Database Administration using phpMyAdmin

October 18th, 2009

This document will cover various database administration activities using phpMyAdmin (PMA for short). This covers three levels of administration; database level, table level, and row (data) level. PMA is a database front end for the popular database language/architecture MySQL. PMA itself is written in the equally popular server-side language PHP.

Short URL generator / Referrer hider

October 15th, 2009

ezLINK.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, 2009

Today, 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, 2009

RenownedLyrics 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, 2009

Today, 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, 2009

Today 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, 2009

Today, 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, 2009

When 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, 2009

We’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, 2009

This 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 [...]

Facebook Developers API Offline Manual

September 1st, 2009

An offline copy of the Facebook API, for fb developers on the go.

Facebook API bug fb:photo for new accounts

August 28th, 2009

There is an annoying bug with the Facebook API which is preventing the Squirrelify app from working as planned. Facebook uses a version of HTML that they extend from basic HTML called FBML (FaceBook Markup Language). What this does is allow certain tags to be displayed on the screen which are then altered using javascript [...]

CodeIgniter User Authentication Model

August 23rd, 2009

Here is the source code for our user authentication model which we use in our CodeIgniter applications for interfacing with our users tables.

How to change wordpress tag cloud font sizes

August 21st, 2009

After 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, 2009

This 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, 2009

This 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, 2009

Amazon 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, 2009

We’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 [...]

Generating Password Protected ZIP Files using PHP

September 20th, 2008


This is a method for compressing files using the ZIP compression and assigning passwords to them on demand. One requirement is that you are on a Linux server (the script executes command line options that aren’t present on a Windows PC).