Marketing a new and exciting product is just one way to make money online. You will find that there is much . . . → Read More: Creating a php script to sell products]]> Ever wonder how some people are able to get sites up and going giving them access to update the content on the site and add pages of new products without knowing a single thing about html?

Marketing a new and exciting product is just one way to make money online. You will find that there is much more money to be made when you have a service to offer people who are just starting out online.

Follow this series of posts in the members section. By the end of the posts, you will have a working content management system with a shopping cart that ACTUALLY works! Plus, you can learn how to manipulate php to appear as different file types, build a MySQL database, build a functioning script that works around the MySQL database, and how to write files on the fly….Plus let’s not forget about the making php code to look and quack like xml, yet it is really still php!

We will include all sorts of tools that EVERY WEBMASTER AND USER NEEDS AND DESIRES. Goodies will include: RSS feed of products, on the fly XML sitemap, podcasting abilities, RSS feed for podcasts that goes directly to iTunes, shopping cart that will work with paypal (will also show you how to use it with clickbank), easy to use WYSIWYG editor in the admin area that gives you COMPLETE CONTROL over the page being created, and much, much more!

To view a sample of the script that we will be coding, visit my personal website. I coded this script and will include the source code to the WHOLE PROJECT as a download at the end of the tutorial.

You won’t want to miss this advanced lesson on how to create your own working php script that you can customize and sell to people, gaining you respect as a coder and giving your customer a very useful product that they will very likely pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for!

Look in the Member’s Only section to read this series of articles.

Still just thinking about it now. If this were to happen, how many people would actually be interested in this? Comment to this post if you would be . . . → Read More: Amazon, CJ, and eBay WordPress classes]]> I am considering having a member’s only area where member will be able to view and download source code for Amazon, commission junction and eBay affiliate program plugins.

Still just thinking about it now. If this were to happen, how many people would actually be interested in this? Comment to this post if you would be interested in viewing and downloading source code, having videos readily available on how to use the code, and instructions on how to make plugins and making your own comparison shopping plugin. Maybe even have code samples and instructions on how to make your own complete affiliate script!

Debating on it….Let me know what you think.

Once you have a book, install mysql and Apache on your machine and start coding locally . . . → Read More: Learn How to Code php From Home]]> There are many ways to learn php from home. There is a vast amount of information on the web to teach one how to program php, though I recommend getting a book to keep as a reference manual in the future.

Once you have a book, install mysql and Apache on your machine and start coding locally in a non-production environment. This will allow you to do two things:
1.) Debug your code before putting up for the public.
2.) Keep a copy on your local machine for future upgrades that you would want to make to the code.

Below, I have listed a couple of books that I recommend you to read before trying to code a project yourself.

PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition) $31.18 PHP and MySQL are popular open-source technologies that are ideal for quickly developing database-driven Web applications. PHP is a powerful scripting language designed to enable developers to create highly featured Web applications quickly, and MySQL is a fast, reliable database that integrates well with PHP and is suited for dynamic Internet-based applications. PHP and MySQL Web Development shows how to use these tools together to produce effective, interactive Web applications. It clearly describes the basics of the PHP language, explains how to set up and work with a MySQL database, and then shows how to use PHP to interact with the database and the server. This practical, hands-on book includes numerous examples that demonstrate common tasks such as authenticating users, constructing a shopping cart, generating PDF documents and images dynamically, sending and managing email, facilitating user discussions, connecting to Web services using XML, and developing Web 2.0 applications with Ajax-based interactivity. The fourth edition of PHP and MySQL Web Development has been thoroughly updated, revised, and expanded to cover developments in PHP 5 through version 5.3, such as namespaces and closures, as well as features introduced in MySQL 5.1.

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What are the benefits of do-it-yourself coding when there are so many freelancers one may ask. In the long run, if you are going to run an independent site (or multiple sites) you will save a lot of money by coding it yourself.

If you are running a . . . → Read More: Building a sufficient php site]]> To get more popular search engine rank, a new webmaster must make sure that they do their keywords homework. There are several ways to do this, with Wordtracker being the most popular. Once you have done your homework and have great keyword phrases, then register your domain and start building your site.

If you are running a php/mysql website, then you will have urls that look like this: http://yoursite.com/index.php?task=view&id=1 or something of that nature. You can change the urls, if your server allows for ModRewrite by utilizing a small file that is planted on the server. The file name is .htaccess. Now, to rewrite the files, you will need to write the file in a text editor and simply save as .htaccess or .htaccess.txt and rename on server by removing the .txt extension. In this file, using a url like the one listed above, you will want to write the .htaccess like this:


Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z0-9?-]+) index.php?task=view&id=$1&name=$2 [L]
RewriteBase /


Now is time for the php code to rename the urls. This can be done in a separate php file if so desired or on the pages that query for the urls on the site. If you use the latter, your code can look something like this.

<?php
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table_in_datbase_where_info_is");
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql);
$url_1 = $row['id'].'-'.$row['name'];

That will query the database and get you a link that would look like this:
1-Your url name
Now that we have done this, we will use php str_replace to make the link look friendlier.

$url_1 = str_replace(" ","_",$url_1);

That will remove the spaces and replace them with an underscore. Now to tie it all in together:

$url = "http://yoursite.com/".$url_1.".html";
echo "<a href='".$url."'>$row['name']</a>";
?>

This will now make your urls look like this: http://yoursite.com/1-Your_page_or_post_name.html. With the .htaccess file that we placed earlier, it will look for that url and place it with the same url as before based on the id of your page being 1 or the first entry found in your database. It will automatically rename every entry in the database in that table and will increase your sites search engine popularity.

When your url matches the keywords of the popular searched phrase with little competition, you will soon start to see a steady flow of traffic from the search engines.

In the last post, I showed you how to . . . → Read More: Mod_rewrite with .htacess to change links in rss feed]]> The last post, we showed you how to add datafeeds to a site utilizing php and the MagpieRSS script. In this post, I am going to show you how to go one step further for search engine optimization using your .htaccess file and the str_replace command in php.

In the last post, I showed you how to use an rss feed from craigslist and incorporate it into your site. This time, I am going to show you how to take the same feed and rename all urls in the feed to urls that are more appropriate to your site.

I cannot be sure how this will react with wordpress because I have not tried it yet, however, I am going to give it a shot tomorrow and see what needs to be changed and will write a post about that.

In the last post, we pointed you to Boat Classifieds. Since the last post, I have taken all of the links from that by removing the $href statement.

Now if you have a custom php script or would like to run this with no style, feel free to copy this into wordpad and save as index.php or whatever you choose to rename it.

Okay, enough of the talk, here is the code:
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^boat_classifieds/([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z0-9?-]+) http://mobile.craigslist.org/boa/$1.html
Now to discuss what we are doing. This is telling your server to redirect all links that appear like this: www.yoursite.com/boat_classifieds/1-This_is_your_boat_ad.html to craigslist. The $1 tells the file that the first string of the url defined ([0-9]+) is the string that it will redirect to.

Now for the php code to actually rewrite the urls so that the urls listed actually appear to belong to your site.<?php
require_once('magpierss/rss_fetch.inc');
$url = "http://mobile.craigslist.org/boa/index.rss";
$rss = fetch_rss ( $url );
echo "<ul>";
foreach ($rss->items as $item) {
$href = $item['link'];
$title = $item['title'];
$title1 = seo_str($title);
$href1 = str_replace("http://mobile.craigslist.org/boa/","",$href);
$href1 = str_replace(".html","",$href1);
$href = $site_url.'/boat_classifieds/'.$href1.'-'.$title1.'.html';
$description = $item['description'];
$description = str_replace("a href","a target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='$title' href", $description);
echo"<li><a href=$href target='_blank' rel='follow' title='$title><h2>$title</h2>lt;/a></li> <p>$description</p>";
}
echo"</ul>";
?>
In this code, on line 3 we define the rss feed that we are going to show on our site. Lines 6-8 grab the information from the rss feed. On line 9 we define a function that will be useful for Search Engine Optimization by replacing all irregular characters with an underscore. In the rest of the code, we define the links, description, and then show them in html with the echo command. Specifically, lines 18-20 define the new url that we are going to redirect. On line 22 we redefine how the link opens so that it opens in a new window or tab and allows your original window open.

Preview the code here at Mobile Alabama Boat Classifieds.
You may copy this code now and test it, modify or etc, as you see fit.