Simple Things For The Web

Some of these were built from scratch and others were built to better the originals built by others. Some are here just for the sake of my own personal reference. Most involve the use of at least one of the following: PHP, Javascript, HTML and CSS. If you wish for more information or the source, please email me at . I'll be happy to help.

Please note I am an amatuer programmer – I do this for fun. So don't expect the code to be very sharp, or finely finessed. I'm just a fat guy in a t-shirt doing all the coding.

Miniature, unstable applications

• PHP file delete script

  Some web applications create files and folders in your web server, that you may find impossible to delete via FTP or even by telnet/SSH. Since these files were created by a script, they also have to be deleted by a script. The 'deleter.php' code fragment (which someone helped me write) might help you along to delete those rogue files without needing root access.

  
  

• All Linked Up : A stripped down Open Directory (Currently screwed and not working properly)

• Pull a single Amazon item (ASIN Number)

  This script takes in an ASIN number and returns a linked image of the product with the product name as a 'tooltip'. This (and a few other Amazon scripts I have fiddled with) was based off the hard work done by Jaap's Amazon code in PHP.

  
  

• MagpieRSS driven newsreader [> MagpieRSS]

• Blocking visits with cookies (for the BBClone app)

• unfinished: multiple engine search

References stored for posterity

• Javascript reference manuals

• Very basic Linux/Unix commands, applicable to Apple's OS X as well

• HTML 4.0 Special Entities: Symbols, special characters and latin characters

• URL Encoding table for special characters

• Syntax reference for title formatting for foobar

Recommended Reference Material

• PHP

• Javascript

• xHTML

• CSS

Collated Technology News

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• Google AJAX APIs available from outside of the browser

• Google Developer Days 2008: expanding to thirteen locations

• Developer sandbox for iGoogle launches

• patError 1.2.0 released

• Error Message Control I'm always amazed to discover quite high profile sites letting goofy errors out in the open.

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• How can Adobe make learning ActionScript 3 easier?As you may have noticed from some of my recent posts (here and here), I have been spending some time lately thinking about the ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 transition. I am working on some stuff to make this transition easier (especially for non-developers), but I wanted to make a quick post and get the [...]

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