Tutorials
Create custom backups from your website using cURL
These days I needed a script to backup only a part of a customers website using a CRON. Most of the control panels I know allow only a complete website backup and this is not what I needed. While plaaning the script, I thought about a solution for webmaster without full SSH access to their [...]
Optimizing your WordPress Blog for Google: Part 2
This is part 2 in our series on how to optimize your WordPress blog for Google. In our earlier post we discussed how to avoid the duplicate content penalty when blogging with the WordPress blogging software; today, we are going to share how to optimize your WordPress blog for search engine friendliness especially for the [...]
First steps within the Zend Framework
Setup a quick Yahoo Search page within a few minutes! A few days ago the “old” Google web search API has stopped working for the web public. Not a big surprise after the release of the AJAX web search API. A customer of mine is using search results in his mini sites to give them [...]
Tutorial: FTP Upload via cURL
FTP hosting is often much cheaper than regular web hosting. The upload with an ftp client is for sure the most common way, but could be a problem for people behind a firewall or without enough rights (capabilities) to install a FTP client. For those a upload via a web form is the best solution. [...]
Tutorial: Create a zip file from folders on the fly
For a future project I needed these days some easy to use zip or gzip class to create a zip file from files / folders inside a specified directory. A short search on Google has lead me to the Create ZIP File PHP class from Rochak Chauhan. I tested two other scripts before and must [...]
How-to setup the DNS and name server for a DirectAdmin web server
You have enough of shared hosting and/or the costs for bandwidth are too high? OK, the next step is your own dedicated server, but with a limited budget it’s hard to find a good and cheap managed server. For all beginning server administrator is this guide about how-to setup the DNS for a server with [...]
