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Archive for 2009
Site Update: 2 years old!
Come December 4th, this site will be 2 years old! How time flies. To mark this occasion, I’ve revamped the look of the site, and will continue to tweak various things in the days ahead.
In: News · Tagged with: site update
Codeigniter: Intergrating OpenFlashCharts
Yes I know, it has been some time since I last posted anything on the site. Things have just been crazy at work, trying to get up to speed on using Pentaho for a major project. In fact, I might start posting some Pentaho related topics in the future. There’s definitely a need for more [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: charts, codeigniter, openflashcharts
Codeigniter: Setting up multiple sites on one install
It’s been awhile since I last posted about Codeigniter. In this post, I’m going to walkthrough how I setup a CI install that can support multiple sites. This is by no means the only way to do it, but it’s what works for me.
CI’s default folder structure is really geared towards one site domain, and [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: Apache, codeigniter, website
WebPageTest: The little known but great webpage benchmarking tool.
When it comes to testing how fast a webpage loads, many of us are familiar with Firebug/Yslow tool (installable as a Firefox browser plug-in). Firebug/Yslow is a fantastic plug-in for Firefox, it gives a wealth of information about any webpage as your browser renders it. This is a must have for any webmaster’s toolbox. Unfortunately, [...]
In: Website Building/SEO · Tagged with: performance, webpagetest, website
PHP Basics: Accessing Remote URLs using cURL
In this post, I’m going back to basics to talk about accessing remote URLs with cURL.
In PHP, there are actually four ways to access a remote URL – fopen() fsockopen(), cURL extensions and HTTP_Request class from the PEAR library. Now, choosing one way over another really depends on your needs for simplicity, control, and portability. [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: curl, PHP, tutorial
Google Analytics API class for PHP
About a month back, Google opened the Google Analytics API service to all Analytics users. the API allows developers to integrate the GA reports into their own applications or websites, or even access the reports from a phone!
I’ve been thinking about how I can make use of this API to enhance the sites I’m working [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: api, google analytics, php class
Google ‘Wonder Wheel’ and new search features
Google has launched a new set of features to their search engine which they call “Search Options”. It bring a collection of tools that lets us slice-and-dice our search results to find what we want faster.
The new features includes the ability to filter a search by types such as Forums, Videos, Reviews, etc. We can [...]
In: Website Building/SEO · Tagged with: google, search
Review: Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics
When we first deployed Google Analytics to our websites, it was just a matter of putting in the javascript tagging according to GA’s setup guide. With that, we thought our job was done as “techies”. When the business folks and marketers approached us to get more detail out of GA, we happily put in on [...]
In: Book Review · Tagged with: google analytics, review, web metrics
PHP’s alternative syntax and why it’s useful
PHP offers an alternative way to write their control structures for as long as I’ve remembered. It basically does away with the curly brackets and replaces the opening curly with a colon (:) and the closing with ‘end’-whatever. I have to be honest and say I’ve never really found a need to use the alternative [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: codeigniter, PHP, syntax
Codeigniter: Mixing segment-based URL with querystrings
Codeigniter, by default crafts it’s URL in a search engine friendly format. It uses a segment-based approach and does away with the all familiar querystring format that developers have been using for many years to pass parameters via the URL into their applications.
Codeigniter does allow you to turn on the querystring capability, but that [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: codeigniter, querystring, segments, url