Posted by Olaf
July 21, 2010
There are thousands of hosting companies on the Internet and maybe this article will help you to start your own. Many companies offering web services are hosting reseller of other (bigger) companies or have partnerships with hosting companies. Maybe you have ever thought to offer hosting services by yourself, with a dedicated server or a [...]
Posted by Olaf
February 5, 2010
There are several tutorials on the Internet on how-to integrate the Google Custom search in your website, but the results are not very attractive. The older iframe version doesn’t fit perfectly in most of our templates and the style for ads and results doesn’t look good in the past. A few month Google has released [...]
Posted by Olaf
December 19, 2009
This PHP tutorial will show how to create a simple PHP class to search the flickr site for some photos. To get the data we use the flickr API to run a simple search and return the results in a serialized array. We will be using the php function "file_get_contents" to receive data from flickr. [...]
Posted by Olaf
December 7, 2009
If you need to spam protect your contact, comment or any other public form you should think about using a CAPTCHA image. A CAPTCHA image is an image with a random text which spam bots can’t read. The visitor need to enter that text into a form field and only if there is a match [...]
Posted by Olaf
October 26, 2009
MailChimp is a great mailing list provider with a powerful API system. This tutorial will guide you on how-to integrate the subscription process with other forms on your website.
Posted by Olaf
November 16, 2007
The “old” web search API from Yahoo is deprecated: They discontinued the service in April 2011. For further details, please read the Deprecated Services blog post (there is a new API system). Setup a quick Yahoo Search page within a few minutes! A few days ago the “old” Google web search API has stopped working [...]