scriptygoddess

This new version will show the keywords with the a link to the actual search request.

See original post here.

Figured it was about time I actually posted something…

Little known to many people, PHP actually makes an excellent system level scripting language. Let's take a quick look at scrapping Perl & using PHP for a simple problem.

Setup:
I've got a bunch of m3u files that contain reference to single mp3 files on a friend's web server. I want to download all the mp3s, but don't want to open each m3u file & copy and paste the http link. Let's use PHP for the task.
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When looking for a bug tracker to install on the mt-plugins.org site, David pointed out several open source software packages at Freshmeat.net. There's some *great* stuff over there!

We ended up using Mantis — you can check it out and report bugs about plugins and request features by visiting bugs.mt-plugins.org.

Looks like we won two bloggies. One for best programming of a weblog, and another for best web development weblog.

Very cool! 😀
Thanks everyone!!

(Congratulations to the other winners as well. Glad to see a number of familiar names up there!!)

Now I'm doing scripts for my parents! LOL! My mother needed a script to display her paintings on a web page. There's not a ton, and she's not technically inclined. Ideally, it would be great if the script created thumbnails on the fly so she can just upload and be done.

So rather than write one (since I don't know how to write one that would do thumbnails), I'm looking for what's out there.

Webmaint
Gallery
Simple gallery script (sgs)

Got any others? A review perhaps? How easy are these (or ones you suggest) to use? We're going for beginner level internet user.

Well this isn't really a trick… It's just that I've had to search for this more times than I can count because I couldn't remember the exact way to write it – so I'm posting it here for my future reference.

.stylename a:link {
text-decoration: none;
color: #FF0000; //red
}
.stylename a:visited {
text-decoration: line-through;
color: #00FF00; //green
}
.stylename a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #0000FF;
background-color: #FFFF66; //blue
}
.stylename a:active {
text-decoration: overline;
color: #FFFF00; //yellow
}

[swiped from here]

(updated: fixed typo – and added a different color and "text-decoration" for each state so you can see which one is which when testing it)

The idea here is to display an image based on whether a check box is checked or not. It'll toggle it's display, so you can click it on, click it off, etc.

(And if you post a comment asking me why anyone would ever want this, I will beat you up. LOL! I needed this for an application I was working on at work. I'm sure there are other uses as well… can't think of them at the moment, but that's not my problem.) 😉
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As many bloggers would agree, one of the things that keeps you going is to know that readers find your posts valuable. But often there are those days when you make a great post with lots of links and you get no comments at all.

Did anyone read your posts? Did anyone even click on the links? Who knows?!?

So I went in search of a "Click Tracker" script. Since I don't know beans about coding, I had to settle for what I could find that was A) a cinch to set up, B) free and C) easy to use.

What I wound up using is this snazzy little cgi script called Aardvard Click Manager (and yes, I am using it on this post).

This script is very easy to install. Everything you need to know is in the ReadMe.

Cool Features:
* All links are ranked on your stats page.
* Tracking is started when you create a link, no admin panel needed.
* Can track clicks on downloads as well as scripts.
* Stats can be sorted by Clicks, ID or URL.
* You can use a shortened url to pass your link, which hides the actual url.
* By usings SSI, you can include how many times a link was clicked beside the link.
* Stats can be password protected.

Jeremy Scheff did a great job on this script, and has some other nice tools on his site so be sure to explore while you are there.

It would be nice if it were in php and MySQL, but you would lose a lot of the simplicity in the set-up. If you know of more advanced "Click Trackers" be sure to post it here.

I'm working on a little script where I have to display (or not display) an image based on whether a checkbox is checked… A quick search for something similar (that I could use) revealed this page: The Javascript Goodies Book.

Jason is looking for people to test out his Random Quote Generator. You can download the beta here.