Programming

If you’re using JQuery, you’re likely concerned about the size and amount of data in your pages. With the average web page now over 300k (and 50 objects), if you can come in under the average your site appears to load faster, and faster loading means happier visitors.

Microsoft introduced a new V2.0 of their search API. While older applications still work, new AppID's only work with the new V2.0 API; any previous PHP scripts must be updated to work with the new V2.0 API. The new API is easier to work with, and it's easy to create a custom site search using Microsoft's Live API V2.0 and PHP.

PHP class and template for using MSN Search API while handling UTF-8 encodings correctly. Easy to customize as output is tagged with CSS classes.

Using the Google Search API with PHP and SOAP. Example provided for a site search.

Improving Caching when using PHP. Serving XHTML with the correct MIME type while considering incompatible browsers.

Improving Caching when using PHP. Part 2 of a series expands on the previous script to be more flexible.

Using Google to offer your visitors translations of your site automatically in many languages easily using JavaScript and PHP.

When working with i18n, the first issue becomes finding what language the client's browser desires. PHP easily parses the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header to provide this information, although a few potential pitfalls must be avoided.

The Kate editor on Linux allows color-coded editing by creating custom XML files. If you’re using Markdown we’ve created a custom XML file to enable color-coded editing of Markdown documents in the Linux Kate editor. Installation is easy, with only 1 XML file needed.

One of the advantages of Movable Type over Wordpress comes from publishing static HTML files (fetching data from the database for each page request doesn't scale well). By creating static HTML files, round trips to the database are eliminated...