A few days ago we published an article which sheds some light on the ethics of content scraping. Content scraping — in short –means that a webmaster copies a 3rd party’s content in an automated way. If you copy the whole article, then then this is content theft, if you republish the excerpt of the article and link back to your source,...
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How to write a content scraper or feed aggregator for Wordpress in 10 minutes with PHP and cURLA few days ago we published an article which sheds some light on the ethics of content scraping.
Content scraping — in short –means that a webmaster copies a 3rd party’s content in an automated way. If you copy the whole article, then then this is content theft, if you republish the excerpt of the article [...]
I hate captcha systems, truly, madly, deeply. But spammers force us to create and use them.
Writing captcha systems can be very easy. You need a randomly generated image, a hard to read font, and finally basic server side coding knowledge. I use PHP cos it’s well documented and extremely easy to use, but you can [...]
Creating vertical text over an image is extremely simple with Imagick. The text created with Imagick can be used for example as a watermark over an image or any other thing you can think of.
It’s very important to understand that the created object is just an image and that you can not have any text [...]
Many doesn’t know, but with Imagick anyone can manage PDF files. As far as I know you can’t create one, but this function can be extremely useful to create a screenshot of a PDF file on the server’s side.
First of all, the PDF file you just created has to be loaded in Imagick, either the [...]
As of PHP5, a new improved version of MySQL connector is available. It’s called MySQLi, which stands for “MySQL Improved”. I had to think a lot about what the “i” stands for, but it seems that the guys (or gals) who developed the extension has the same, endless imagination as the PHP developers has.
So, a [...]
