Scripts

By Douglas Clifton
A frequently asked question on the popular css-discuss.org mailing list and archive is, "How do I store and reuse values in my style sheets?"

I can certainly relate to this as a programmer—it was one of the first things I thought of when I started using CSS. Because I prefer to separate my work into discrete modules, I immediately recognized the power behind the concept. I was already using PHP, Perl and other tools to generate HTML dynamically, so CSS didn’t seem quite powerful enough. However, it didn’t take me long to learn how to approach style sheets in a similar way.

By: Candice Pardue
The "Close Window" button allows your visitors to return to the previously viewed web page by clicking the button instead of clicking on the "X" at the top right corner of the browser window to exit the page.

by: Jeff Anderson (from Codetoad)
A javascript validation function that you can use to validate all types of forms.

By Thomas Oertli (taken from www.zend.com).

The goal of this paper is not only to show common threats and challenges of programming secure PHP applications but also to show you practical methods for doing so. The wonderful thing about PHP is that people with little or even no programming experience are able to achieve simple goals very quickly. The problem, on the other hand, is that many programmers are not really conscious about what is going behind the curtains. Security and convenience do not often go hand in hand -- but they can.

It’s an unfortunate thing, but the internet certainly has its share of unscrupulous people. In my opinion, the worst amongst these are those that deploy software robots to roam the web and harvest email addresses from web pages. These addresses are then collated into huge databases and sold for the purpose of spam.

By: Ric Raftis
It’s an unfortunate thing, but the internet certainly has its share of unscrupulous people. In my opinion, the worst amongst these are those that deploy software robots to roam the web and harvest email addresses from web pages. These addresses are then collated into huge databases and sold for the purpose of spam.

By http://www.dionaea.com/
Hmmm - what's that all about? Well - you may already have heard of it, but in short it is a little icon which Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0 and later use when you bookmark sites in it, reading that iconfile each time and place it next to your entry. It will also show up on the address bar.

One of the challenges facing the modern web designer is to create sites that appear fresh and new every time a visitor shows up.

by SiteArticles.com

In the long-gone days of the early Internet, having a form on the website was tantamount to dabbling with "cutting-edge" technologies. Intricate Perl scripts and esoteric CGI scripts were required to process those forms and people used to suffer bouts of cold sweat whenever there manifested a need to use web forms. To create a form-handling script used to be in the realms of MCAs and computer engineers. No longer is it so. The Internet these days is replete with all sorts of form handling scripts, and wherever you choose to host your website, or for that matter even a web page, you can easily deploy a form handling script and start interacting with your visitors.

by Michael Kashirin

Article describes how to create a web page that can be viewed by users, who disabled JavaScript support or whose web browser does not support it.

(WebmastersLookup)

On ThreadWatch yesterday there was a thread about rank checkers, and I couldn't believe that some SEOs don't use them. We use our own heavy duty mega serp scraper to fully analyse any industry we are working in.

From Mike Nott: Glenn over at SSEO asked for a script to do mass whois lookups.

From Mike Nott: For crawling in PHP I have always used the fantastic cURL.