Today, I got an email from adsense-noreply@google.com with the subject “We are retiring AdSense Referrals”. It says that during the last week of August, the AdSense referrals feature will be retired for both AdWords advertiser products and Google products. Beginning in late August, any remaining referral ads on your site will no longer work, and [...]

Smarty is a template engine for PHP. More specifically, it facilitates a manageable way to separate application logic and content from its presentation. This is best described in a situation where the application programmer and the template designer play different roles, or in most cases is not the same person.

PEAR is short for “PHP Extension and Application Repository” and is pronounced just like the fruit. It is a repository of PHP software code. The PEAR project was founded in 1999 by Stig S. Bakken to promote the re-use of code that performs common functions.

Dear Tech Support: Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a slow down in the overall performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications that had operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, but installed [...]

I just found a very cool web browser built on Mozilla’s Firefox codebase. This browser is best for all the social networking junkies. Here is what wikipedia has written about Flock:

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS was designed to show selected data. Without RSS, users will have to check your site daily to check for new updates. This may be too time-consuming for many users. With an RSS feed (RSS is often called a News Feed or RSS Feed) they can check your site [...]

From the code below, you can get Resolution, Page title, Page url, Agent name, Browser name and Page Referrer.

From the code below, you can get IP Address, Page name, Browser name, Operating System name, and Page Referrer name. Note: If you directly run this code, you will not get Referrer name. To view referrer information, you can link the page below from any other page.  

I find timestamp more flexible to use. Using time function which returns current Unix timestamp. We have the flexibility to change the timestamp according to the display requirement for our date and time by using date function.

Refreshing page in PHP with “meta http-equiv”. refresh.html

I had problem giving the back link and I found this solution: Go Back This helped me. Hope this will be useful to you as well.

Generating/Displaying random image in PHP.

Before I had posted an article to add, edit, delete, and display contents. I had also included sessions there. There was the facility to login and register users too. But i got feedback that it was a bit complex for novice users of PHP (users who have just started PHPing). It was a kind of [...]

Explaining/Illustrating different ways to generate random numbers and strings in PHP

In this article, you will find php validation code for: 1) Interger Validation 2) String Validation 3) Decimal Validation (two digits after decimal)