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Track your Alexa Rank History

January 14, 2015

The Alexa Rank is a way of determining a website’s popularity.

SSL Encryption – Update

January 14, 2015

We have just rolled out SSL encrytion on Statvoo which means:

Why Website Analytics Is So Important These Days

January 14, 2015

The web has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, “invented” the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989.

Create daterange array of missing dates

February 20, 2014

• Php

<?php //fromDate 2014 - 01 - 22 //toDate 2014 - 02 - 20 //$arr Array( [0] = & gt; Array( [ISO_DATE] = & gt; 2014 - 02 - 18[DAY_SUM_AMOUNT] = & gt; 3000[DAY_SUM_VOLUME] = & gt; 2[CONVERSION_PCT] = & gt; 100 ) [1] = & gt; Array( [ISO_DATE] = & gt; 2014 - 02 - 19[DAY_SUM_AMOUNT] = & gt; 4000[DAY_SUM_VOLUME] = & gt; 1[CONVERSION_PCT] = & gt; 100 ) ) //codetime function createDateRangeArray($strDateFrom, $strDateTo) { $aryRange = array(); $iDateFrom = mktime(1, 0, 0, substr($strDateFrom, 5, 2) , substr($strDateFrom, 8, 2) , substr($strDateFrom, 0, 4)); $iDateTo = mktime(1, 0, 0, substr($strDateTo, 5, 2) , substr($strDateTo, 8, 2) , substr($strDateTo, 0, 4)); if ($iDateTo & gt; = $iDateFrom) { array_push($aryRange, date('Y-m-d', $iDateFrom)); // first entry while ($iDateFrom & lt; $iDateTo) { $iDateFrom += 86400; // add 24 hours array_push($aryRange,date('Y-m-d',$iDateFrom)); } } return $aryRange; } function recursive_array_search($needle,$haystack) { foreach($haystack as $key=>$value) { $current_key = $key; if ($needle === $value or (is_array($value) & amp; & amp; recursive_array_search($needle, $value) !

Speedtest on Ubuntu Server (commandline)

February 19, 2014

• Linux

Using the speedtest-cli is easy and very useful. You run it as follows:

URL GET vars to PHP Array

May 14, 2013

• Php

Sometimes you will need to retrieve the GET variables passed into the current page URI or you will have a URL string to work from which contains certain GET variables, the below method helps a lot to convert them into an array which you can easily manipulate later.

python "AttributeError: ZipFile instance has no attribute ‘__exit__"

May 8, 2013

• Python

This is actually a very easy error to fix, eventhough off the bat it seems a lot more involved.

Remove specific HTML tags using PHP

March 21, 2013

• Php

There are times when you want to remove a specific HTML tag from an HTML block of text.

Keep Google Map v3 centered when browser is resized

March 8, 2013

• Javascript

Using Google Maps V3 Javascript API you can keep the map centered to the browser’s window by using the following trick when resizing the window.

Buy a Google Nexus 10 in the UK!

December 29, 2012

If you are looking to get a Google Nexus 10 inch tablet and are based in the UK you are in for a shocker!

Let Joomla and MySQL interact!

December 21, 2012

• My SQL , Php

I often need a quick and easy few lines to retrieve some data from MySQL using Joomla without all the MVC nonsense that usually goes about this topic.

Perform a Mysql Query using Joomla!

November 23, 2012

This is really actually meant for future reference for myself as lately I’ve been doing quite a lot of Joomla!

Refresh User Data in Joomla

October 21, 2012

• Php

I was busy with a custom component in Joomla, and it stored it’s own user_details based off of the main users table, but if the details were changed then I needed the system to update the session to reflect the changes.

Extract email addresses from a string – PHP

October 9, 2012

• Php

Sometimes you need to extract multiple email addresses from a string and the following function will make all your dreams come true.

How to drive traffic to your website!

September 28, 2012

• Seo

This is a very hot topic indeed. Definitely one that everyone with a website should know all about.

jQuery limit fields to alphanumeric characters only

September 26, 2012

• Javascript

I was trying to restrict a form’s field from only allowing the user to enter alphanumeric characters into it.

Make a dynamic year dropdown using PHP

September 18, 2012

• Php

Ever wanted to have a dropdown that automatically showed the current year and the few years before it?

Pad a string with zeros using PHP

September 17, 2012

• Php

Recently I had to create a code/username maker to fit into a certain type of pattern so that all “broker codes” (as they were called) followed the same path.

ImportError: No module named MySQLdb (Python)

July 23, 2012

• Python

Trying to use MySQL with Python and getting an ImportError?

Search for “arabic” is url request and change codepage – ASP

July 12, 2012

If you are using Classic ASP (yuck) to create an arabic section of a website you can search for the arabic string in your Request URI and then change the session’s codepage as follows: