I love WordPress. I really do. Maybe not as much as Olaf, but he’s made a convert out of me. I’m using it more and more for my sites but am getting increasingly frustrated at how many of the ‘standard’ plugins and widgets don’t seem to be as complete as they could be. So many [...]
Most web servers are able to handle “normal” traffic and there are plenty of websites which doesn’t have so much traffic. So maybe you ask yourself: Why should you cache your PHP powered website? The apache web server is able to serve many, many files at the same time, but all these files need to [...]
After your websites getting more pages and links, the chance that a visitor will follow a dead link to your site exists. If a visitor is trying to access a page on your site, the server will report (normally) a 404 error. The response is by default some unfriendly page with some spare information about [...]
Many web applications output documents like invoices, contracts or just web pages in the PDF format. There are a few PHP classes which can be used for creating PDF files online, one of them is TCPDF. This tutorial is about how-to use the TCPDF class while creating a simple invoice document. If you like to [...]
Last week we published an article with different methods to hide e-mail addresses on websites. Because of several comments with suggestions on how-to solve this problem, we provide this week a solution which is “from these days” and more powerful. Based on the idea if you don’t show an address, a spambot can’t see it, [...]
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 [...]
