Here is the link where you can download IP to country sql for database. Also come with some sample codes on how to use the data. Might be useful for your program
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Some technical SEO tips
Worth to consider when building your website to make it search engine friendly.
Important SEO HTML tags
- title
- h1
- h2
- h3
- b
- strong
- img alt
- a href title and keyword in achor text
Use http://www.yourdomain.com/ (always with trailing slash at back)
.htaccess redirect to redirect http://yourdomain.com to http://www.yourdomain.com (site-wide)
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Free sitemap at xml-sitemaps.com
Standard sitemap name/location – yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
Robots.txt syntax
User-agent: *
Disallow: /privatefolder/
Disallow: /privatefile.html
Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
Function to create and read csv file
Found this function from bin-co. Haven’t tested the function but I think it might be useful for me in the future.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 | //Get the result of the query as a CSV stream. //http://www.bin-co.com/php/scripts/csv_import_export/ function CSVExport($query) { $sql_csv = mysql_query($query) or die("Error: " . mysql_error()); //Replace this line with what is appropriate for your DB abstraction layer header("Content-type:text/octect-stream"); header("Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=data.csv"); while($row = mysql_fetch_row($sql_csv)) { print '"' . stripslashes(implode('","',$row)) . "\"\n"; } exit; } //Import the contents of a CSV file after uploading it //http://www.bin-co.com/php/scripts/csv_import_export/ //Aruguments : $table - The name of the table the data must be imported to // $fields - An array of fields that will be used // $csv_fieldname - The name of the CSV file field function CSVImport($table, $fields, $csv_fieldname='csv') { if(!$_FILES[$csv_fieldname]['name']) return; $handle = fopen($_FILES[$csv_fieldname]['tmp_name'],'r'); if(!$handle) die('Cannot open uploaded file.'); $row_count = 0; $sql_query = "INSERT INTO $table(". implode(',',$fields) .") VALUES("; $rows = array(); //Read the file as csv while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) { $row_count++; foreach($data as $key=>$value) { $data[$key] = "'" . addslashes($value) . "'"; } $rows[] = implode(",",$data); } $sql_query .= implode("),(", $rows); $sql_query .= ")"; fclose($handle); if(count($rows)) { //If some recores were found, //Replace these line with what is appropriate for your DB abstraction layer mysql_query("TRUNCATE TABLE $table") or die("MySQL Error: " . mysql_error()); //Delete the existing records mysql_query($sql_query) or die("MySQL Error: " . mysql_error()); // and insert the new ones. print 'Successfully imported '.$row_count.' record(s)'; } else { print 'Cannot import data - no records found.'; } } |
My wordpress blog got hacked!
Suddenly two of my blogs could not be viewed. It was blank and another one display the “Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!” when browse with Google Chrome.
What I did to recover..
1. Remove the injected script in infected files (this can be checked in the error log file)
2. Login to my wordpress and export all content and save it on my PC
3. Download all my images in wp-content/uploads folder
4. Totally remove the wordpress
5. Do fresh installation with latest wordpress version available in Fantastico
6. Upgrade wordpress to latest version available with auto update feature
7. Make sure I don’t use “admin” as username for my blog and password at least 8 character long consists of aplhabet, number and special characters.
8. Install only neccessary and trusted plugins and themes. Immediately update plugins if new version available
9. Import all the files with import feature in tools
10. Copy back all the images to wp-content/uploads folder. Better check first to ensure no unwanted files in the folder.
Other than that..
1. Scan PC for virus and malware
Kill those malwares/virus
Lots of new virus and malware nowadays. Keep your PC safe with these tools
Another thing, try avoid using Internet Explorer. Google Chrome can better protect you from infected websites.
If you are using open source application like wordpress. Ensure that
- you are using the latest version
- your password is secure with at least 8 alphanumeric character with mix of special character and lower/upper case character
- you are using 3rd party plugins/themes from only reliable sources
- if possible try remove standard footer and header generated by the application (please read the terms first)
Other tips
- Don’t login to your web application in public and unsecure place or PC’s like in cyber cafe etc
- If you suspect your account was hacked, immediately change the password and inform your system admin or hosting/technical support
Updated: Don’t eve save password in FTP client application like Filezilla. They save your password in flat file and easily read by any other application
Create a printer-friendly page
Easiest way to create a printer friendly page is by creating another css file. What I did is just removing the heading style.
CSS (save the CSS file as style-print.css)
#header is id for your header (div or table)
1 2 3 | #header { display: none; } |
In HTML add this line
1 | <link rel="stylesheet" href="style-print.css" type="text/css" media="print" /> |
Include google-hosted jquery
If you are lazy to copy and paste the jquery file to your development folder for example when testing something simple, you can always use jquery hosted by google. To include it is very simple, you just include this script on the top and you’re done.
1 2 3 4 | <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script> <script> google.load("jquery", "1.3"); </script> |
You are ready to use the jquery. Yahooo.. ups.. Goooooglee!!
HTML frame to cloak URL
This is HTML frame code to cloak URL. Be careful when use it on affiliate program. Some program (like clickbank) don’t allow URL cloak with this method.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | <html><head> <title>example title</title> </head> <frameset border=0 rows="100%,*" frameborder="no"> <frame src="http://www.example.com" frameborder="no" border=0 noresize> <frame topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" frameborder="no" border="0" noresize> </frameset> </html> |
PHP HTML Parser
To parse an HTML file, you can use this class
Alternative control statement for PHP
PHP offers alternative for control statements just for developers who did not want to see lot of curly brackets ‘{ }’ in their code.
<?php if($access): //and close it with endif; ?> |
It’s also applicable to else statement:
<?php if($access): //code here else: //code here endif; ?> |
This alternative method can also be used for foreach.