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Newer posts →Finding the Lowest or Highest Number with PHP
Recently I was writing a script and ran into a problem. I needed to compare a set of numbers and find the lowest one. Now, at first I thought that I could compare each one with if statements but I … Continue reading
Posted in PHP | Tagged PHP | Comments OffCalculating USPS Shipping Rates with PHP
If you have a custom shopping cart and you want to calculate actual shipping rates from USPS this is the post for you. After giving up searching the internet for PHP scripts or examples of implementing USPS rates I decided … Continue reading
Posted in PHP | Tagged PHP, USPS | 87 CommentsAdsense Split Testing Results for 250×250 vs 300×250
If you remember back to the post I wrote, Using PHP to Determine Which Adsense Ad Works Best, we explored ways to split test the performance of Adsense with the help of PHP. I had also promised to share the … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, PHP | Tagged Adsense, Split testing | 7 CommentsUsing PHP to Determine Which Adsense Ad Works Best
I recently read an article that discussed the effectiveness of different adsense ad sizes. The three medium box shaped ads that adsense offers is: 250×250 300×250 336×280 The article mentioned that even though the 336×280 was the largest it wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in PHP | 5 CommentsCalculating UPS Shipping Rate with PHP
It’s actually very easy to calculate shipping from UPS with PHP once you know how. But at first glance it seems like an impossible task to do.
Posted in PHP | 185 CommentsSend email notifications with php
In order to send an email notification on your site via php you will probably need some sort of scheduled task program. This will execute the php script routinely. Since I tend to use open source software I used cron. … Continue reading
Posted in PHP | Comments OffDownload files through authentication
I recently needed to implement a way for authenticated users to download files. Normally to host a file for download on a site you would need to provide the url to the download. www.yourdomain.com/restrictedfile.pdf.
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