As a useful addition to the webstats armory Visitors offers a quick way of getting a HTML report of site usage from server logs. We mainly use AWstats, Webalizer and Analytics products (Google Analytics, Piwik) but I found Visitors useful today. Install from Synaptic or with: sudo apt-get install visitors Then run it against your… Read more »
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Opera Mini on Ubuntu
I’m using Ubuntu 9.04 and I wanted to be able to run Opera Mini for testing web sites: Download MicroEmulator from here (or direct version 2.0.3) Extract the tar file and run the jar with: java -jar microemulator.jar In the Window that opens from the menubar choose Options > Select Device > Add Browse to… Read more »
Example robots.txt
Not all crawlers obey all of these rules but as a reference point. The crawl delay is the number of seconds between requests and the newer request-rate is set here to not more than 1 every 5 seconds. The crawlers are also asked to visit during the night. User-agent: *Disallow: /media/Crawl-delay: 10Request-rate: 1/5Visit-time: 2100-0545
Printing Random Array Elements in PHP and Javascript
Non-dynamic tag cloud? <script language=”JavaScript” type=”text/javascript”> var mytags = new Array( “histories”,”names”, “land”,”lists”,”free” ); var randomseed=Math.floor(Math.random()*8) for(i=0;i<mytags.length;i++){ var randomnumber=Math.floor(Math.random()*141) randomnumber=randomnumber+40; if(randomnumber%randomseed!=0){ document.write(“<a style=’font-size:”+ randomnumber +”%;’>”+ mytags[i] + “</a> “); } } </script> <?php$input = array(“histories”,”names”, “land”,”lists”,”free”);$rand_keys = array_rand($input, 30);for($i;$i<30;$i++){$randomnumber=rand(40,181);echo “<a style=’font-size:”.$randomnumber.”%;’>”.$input[$rand_keys[$i]] . “</a>\n”;}?>
Debugging PHP Errors
To debug PHP without having to amend the php.ini for all websites add the following in a .htaccess file in the directory of the application. Easy to switch on and off: php_value display_errors 1php_value display_startup_errors 1 or php_flag display_errors onphp_value error_reporting 2039 More examples hereGood IBM article here about error reporting levels etc
WordPress Theme Tutorial
This tutorial is useful for converting an existing design to a WordPress theme quickly:http://jonathanwold.com/tutorials/wordpress_theme/
Privacy Policies
Great tutorial on using the IBM privacy policy editor for standards compliance:http://www.awardsites.com/tutorials/w3c/p3p_privacy-01.htm
