Website Development

You might need the size of an image for many reasons - in this tutorial I'll go over the simple task of getting this information. The Code <? $info = getimagesize("image.gif"); $width = $info[0]; $height = $info[1]; $type = $info[2]; $attr = $info[3]; ?> The function getimagesize returns an array with 4 values. I've written [...]

You may have noticed the new front page for Tim Linden DOT COM. This is where all announcements will go, that need to be there for some time. You see the blog, the front page info goes away as I post. So previously, I wouldn't post for a while after an announcment I wanted people [...]

So you've worked hard on your website, and now you want to rotate banners on your website and generate some cash. It's time for a PHP Banner Rotator! This code sample assumes you have a table named "banners" with at least two fields "SiteURL" and "BannerURL". Which, shouldn't need explaination as to what they are. [...]

If you have any type of website where a user signs up and enters an email address, you must verify that this is in fact their email address. Otherwise, you could find yourself in trouble for emailing someone who didn't want you to email them. These code snippets are only a portion of what you'd [...]

The Google Sitemaps service simply allows Google to learn your website structure, and improve the way they crawl your site. The sitemaps you generate will contain the last modified dates, priority, and frequency. This tells Google what pages need to be re-crawled and how often to re-crawl them. It is a very simple process: You [...]

With any dynamic site, you'll need a page that links to all your dynamic pages. The main index. If you visit the many pages on CLiX Network, there are actually many versions of these index pages that all are sub categories of the main front page. <? $global_dbh = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password"); mysql_select_db("mydatabasename", $global_dbh); $query = "SELECT [...]

Just letting you all know that the comments feature works again, so please comment away. You'll have to create a free account on this website to do it though, it is free and easy. They wont sell your email or nothin! You'll also be able to use it to post to Jimmy's Blog, and two [...]

In the near future I will be releasing scripts under the trademark of SCRIPTMAN. For instance, SCRIPTMAN Traffic Exchange, SCRIPTMAN URL Rotator, etc. If you see a SCRIPTMAN script, it will be a script built by me. I have thought about officially registering the trademark, SCRIPTMAN, but the price outweighs the benefits. I did a [...]

In my article, PHP Image Code Verification, you may have noticed that it would be quite easy for a computer to read the code images, and enter the verification code automatically. In this article I will show you how to prevent this from happening by inserting random pixels to confuse the computers. While this is [...]