Hey everyone,
Just a quick post on some of the plug-ins that I myself personally use. I highly recommend them as they will as the title says make your life a whole lot easier.
First off there are several e-commerce plugins out there for people to use but I personally use WP-ecommerce. It is easy to set up with products, a payment gateway and a few other odds and ends then you are set! However if you install this plugin and find that you get a memory error don't fret. Just grab your favorite ftp client log in and grab your wp-settings.php file. Open it up with your favorite editor and look for a line that looks somewhat close to the one below. Usually it is set to 32M But in the case of my install I wanted to make sure it had plenty of memory available to work so I set mine to 128M.
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '32M');
Could read:
define("WP_MEMORY_LIMIT", "64M");
or what ever other number up to 128.
Another plugin that I had just discovered that works wonders is My Page Orderer. It simply does as its title says it does. Orders pages. Install and activate it Then go to your pages tab and you will
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Hello everyone,
I had been asked how do I determine which keywords to go for when doing SEO or search engine optimization. So that is our topic today along with a unique way to let Google "tell you" what ranks well for the specific keyword...
So open up another tab on your browser and go to Google.
Type in Fitness Trainer Now do not hit enter. Grab your pen and paper or a notepad file and copy down all of these suggestions google is giving you right now. These are real time searches that people are typing in at the moment of the search. These can be useful for other keywords to rank for in our site.
When you do hit the enter key take a look at the number of results that come up in the upper right hand corner. At the time I did this search there were over 15,000,000 pages indexed in google. Next we want to open up Google Adwords Keyword tool. Type in Fitness Trainer, make sure the check box for use synonyms is checked and fill out the little image verification. Then hit your enter key. I am not providing screen shots
So we want
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Hey everyone,
Just a quick post about how easy it is to arrive to either a future date or determine a past date... I found this bit of code out after researching a bit online to help a fellow warrior forum member out. They wanted to set up a coupon to be printed out next to a cash register from a kiosk for a local business. So they had the file already set up with the image that they wanted for the coupon, but they wanted to get some php code in the page to allow for an expiration date to be put over top of the coupon specifically in the area for the expiration date. So here it is.
First off we are going to do some basic html code as this is where the expiration date will be printed out and then positioned on the page. We are going to start by providing a div statement as follows.
<DIV>
<!-- php code goes here-->
</DIV>
Now that we have that set up we can put the following css in an external style sheet or one directly in the page itself. Any way,
DIV {
width: 25px;
height: 25px;
position: absolute top xxpx; left: xxpx; //where the first
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Ok everyone first off I will show you an example of a similar form that we will create. Go to my contact page for the example. Now I am not going to show you how to integrate a capcha but will show you how to get the nuts and bolts done for a contact form. Keep in mind that the contact form on this site is done in wordpress so the code behind it will be different from the code I show you below. So on we go! First off your requirements are as follows:
- Must have a hosting plan I would recommend bluehost.com
- The hosting plan must have php v4.x or higher
- Either TextEdit(mac) or notepad(pc)
- An ftp client Filezilla(mac) or WS-FTP(pc)
Ok So now that we have a hosting account with php, our editor and an ftp client, we now need to figure out how our form is going to be processed. I know most of you are saying "Wait?! What about the form?". Well that will come next. We need to figure out how we want to process it so that we can plan on either creating one or two files. The example provided above was done with two files to
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Have you ever been in a situation where either you or your boss needs a form or application filled out without the use of databases? Well I have the solution for you. I was posed with a clients project in which they needed an office form brought into the 21st Century. By this I mean that they wanted an online form for others to fill out thus cutting down on the paper trail the form usually had. The forms were filled out in triplicate with two being kept at the source and the other sent on. Before we go any further I want to give a shout out to the developer that played a big part in my getting this done. Without his fdf creation functions this project would have taken weeks to complete! Justin Koivisto at http://koivi.com There you will be able to see screen shots of what he has done as well as a tutorial that I had learned from. Well after about eight days of trial and error thanks to Adobe Acrobat 8 (that I never had worked with prior to this project) and a bit of good old php code was able to
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Hey all. Just a note for all of you web consultants out there. If you are running on a host that you can't do basic includes You will need two things.
- A custom php.ini file you can ask your host for
- a crucial argument for the php.ini file if you are running php 5.2
If you are getting warnings stating include failed file access denied that means that you need the custom php.ini file, but the one last piece to get things going for you is to add in the file allow_url_include Under allow_url_fopen = On write on the next line allow_url_include = On and save then reupload to the server. Another helpful tip if you are looking to include a file that uses url variables such as ?page=1 you need to include the full url not just the file and variables. The include function will not work. include 'file.php?page=1'; DOESNT work. include 'http://www.yourdomain.com/file.php?page=1'; WILL work.
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