For a long time this site has been running on a custom written script. It has worked well, but one month ago we decided to migrate to wordpress. Here is our experience and tips for others thinking of making the change.
There are many ways to create programming code. One of the easiest but most powerful is to start using object oriented way to think and work. I will give you the basic how you create a class, and why.
Excel files are great for many things. It might though be a little bit tricky to generate them on the fly with php. Therefor I will guide you exactly how to do it, quick and simple.
Working with strings is done very often for the web, and PHP is probably one of the best programming languages for manipulating strings I guarante that there are a function or combination of string functions for Anything you ever need.
Create a copy of an image as a thumbnail. You get a great function that use the GD library to create the new thumbnail file.
Often you need to change the size/dimensions of images in your web site.
GD is a package for manipulating images with PHP. Often it is installed, but not always. This script shows you all possible information about your GD configuration.
Do you know how many visitors you get to your site every day, and where they come from? Why not log it your self with this pretty simple technique and save the statistics to a plain file of the web server.
Let say you have a time or date in the future, and want to show your visitor the time left until that time.
Sometimes it’s necessary to generate images with text on, and it can be a wise idea to generate it with transparent background so you can use it on different colors.
