Archive for July, 2007

PHP script to export MySQL database as tab delimited file

Found a short script today and thought others here might find it useful. It connects to your MySQL server and exports a table as a tab delimited text file. Great if you’re trying to import your MySQL data into another program where normal SQL may not work.

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Bridging forums, blogs, and content areas

From an email
Thank you in advance for responding to this question.
I am getting involved in a project that has blogging and news component but also member ship area and forumz. I am not sure that wordpress is enough. For blogging it seems fine, for a social networking maybe not.
I am looking for the best starter [...]

Using Wordpress as a full CMS

Normally if I’m setting up a site and I want it to be a blog I use Wordpress and if I’m setting up more of a static looking site I’ll use Etomite. I like both packages a lot, and both have worked very well for me.
With the upcoming release of a web application project [...]

Are you addicted to checking stats?

How often do you check your site statistics? Daily, hourly, every 15 minutes. Or how about your Adsense stats? Do you have the Adsense plugin for Firefox so that you are always up-to-date?
I’ll admit it. I’m a stats junkie. I tend to check stats on my sites every few [...]

Display an image using only HTML

Yes, this is horribly inefficient, but the idea is something worth linking to. Neil Fraser has written code to take an uploaded image and convert it to nothing but HTML. It does this by creating a table of 1 pixel by 1 pixel cells colored to match the image.
You can almost hear the [...]