December PHP-Scripts Blog Archives

Blog Explosion looking to hire a PHP / MySQL programmer

Earlier over at Hmm, I was writing about Blog Explosion and I just received an email that says they are looking for a PHP / programmer. Here are the details:
Lead Developer/ Programmer
You should have an extensive knowledge of the following
- extensive knowledge of PHP
- MySQL
- HTML/CSS
- other?
If this is you let us know. We […]

Create your own search engine using Alexa Web Search Platform

Last night Alexa announced that they are opening up their entire database, including server services to developers in exchange for consumption fees. This means there is finally a database API that developers can tie into for commercial purposes with the fees clearly outlined. One of the things that appeals to me, which I’m sure other […]

How to not show the same thing twice when randomizing

Last night I was reviewing a new site that randomizes pages and I kept seeing the same pages coming up repeatedly. This is a rather common problem with many basic randomizers that do not keep track of what has already been shown.

This begs the question: how do you setup even distribution of a randomized […]

How to pluralize using PHP

This is one of those technical nitpick things. Check out the screenshot below of the new Yahoo Answers and see if you can spot the error.

The title of this thread kind of gives it away. Note the “1 Answers” should actually read “1 answer” and then when there ar 2 or more it should […]

Converting domains to cell phone numbers

Awhile back I created a basic webmaster utility script called Easy Cell Code Generator which helped find easy to type cell phone numbers, but what if you had a domain and wanted to convert it out the other way? I decided to whip up some quick code to do just that:
Short domain:
mughd.com
Typed into cell […]