It would be a major understatement to say that the Internet has affected how the world operates. Most of our lives and livelihoods are in many ways impacted by trends that affect how we use the Internet. As much as use of the internet has made things like financial transactions,…
Many first time travellers to China are surprised or chocked to find out that they can’t access popular websites such as Google, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc. in this country. Welcome to the People Republic of China! You might have heard of the Great Firewall of China (or GFW). In short,…
BOTW (Best of the Web) is one of the best web directories. The regular price for submitting websites to BOTW is pretty high. However, BOTW occasionally offers coupon promo codes that users can use to submit websites at a discount price. A Huge ONE DAY SALE Featuring 50% Off All…
Recently, I found Godaddy.com was advertising a new hosting package called “4GH Web hosting” and it was claimed to be the “4th generation hosting”, which is cloud-based, “revolutionary”, even better than Rackspace, GoGrid etc. I was intrigued and signed up. The result? It’s been quite disappointing. If you’ve been using other…
1. preg_match(): if (preg_match(“/php/i”, “PHP is the web scripting language of choice.”)) { echo “A match was found.”; } Note: $matches[0]will contain the text that matched the full pattern, $matches[1] will have the text that matched the first captured parenthesized subpattern, and so on. $str = http://www.php.net/index.html; if (preg_match(‘@^(?:http://)?([^/]+)@i’,…
1. Retrieving a Path’s Filename: $path = ‘/home/www/data/users.txt’; $file_nm = basename($path); // “users.txt” $file_nm_1 = basename($path, “.txt”); // “users”, no extension. 2. Retrieving a Path’s Directory: $path = ‘/home/www/data/users.txt’; $dir_nm = dirname($path) // “/home/www/data” 3. Learning More about a Path: $pathinfo = pathinfo(‘/home/www/htdocs/book/chapter10/index.html’); echo $pathinfo[‘dirname’]; // “/home/www/htdocs/book/chapter10” echo $pathinfo[‘basename’]; //…
1. Checking Whether a File Exists: if (file_exists(“testfile.txt”)) echo “File exists”; 2. Reading from Files: Method 1: Using fgets() to read one line a time: $fh = fopen(“testfile.txt”, ‘r’) or die(“Cannot open file.”); while (!feof($fh)) { $line = fgets($fh); $out .= $line; } fclose($fh); Method 2: Using file_get_contents()…
Before registering a new Facebook application, you need to make sure you have verified your Facebook account. There’re two ways to verify your developer account: 1. You can confirm your phone number at the fololowing URL: http://www.facebook.com/confirmphone.php 2. You can verify your Facebook account by adding your payment (credit card…
If you have an iPod Touch (for example, iPod Touch 4), you might know that it’s more or less like an iPhone without the capability of making phone calls. You might wonder: how nice would it be if I can make phone calls from my iPod Touch? Yes, since an…
Below are steps to allow Kindle to display Chinese characters (汉化). It should work for the most current versions of Kindle 2 and Kindle DX. The one I used myself is Kindle DX Graphite International Version 2.5.5.
