E-mail links, protective solutions against SPAM

If you place your e-mail address somewhere visible on your website, it will be only a matter of time until your e-mail account will get more and more spam messages. There are lots of spam bots checking the Internet for email addresses on regular websites, forums, blog and mailing lists. Once caught by some spam [...]

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 planning the script, I thought about a solution for webmaster without full SSH access to their [...]

Dynamic thumbnails from websites

Since Alexa stopped offering their free thumbnail service last year a lot of thumbnail services are available now. Some of them offering limited free services and others only a paid premium version. On of the bigger and better services is Girafa, a thumbnail service with a free service and also premium services for users with [...]

Parse html with PHP preg_match_all

For the most of the PHP developer which are using preg_match or preg_replace frequently is the function preg_match_all a smaller advantage, but for all others it’s maybe hard to understand. The biggest difference between preg_match_all and the regular preg_match is that all matched values are stored inside a multi-dimensional array to store an unlimited number [...]