For those that aren’t familiar with Yahoo Finance. They provide a simple api for obtaining information (quote) on stocks. To learn the basics of how it works you can read the post Yahoo Finance Stock API, and Understanding Yahoo Finance Stock Quotes and sl1d1t1c1ohgv which outlines the various information that you can request. However these…

In PHP we are provided with an integrated logging system for outputting info, warnings, and errors. This is accomplished by use of the syslog function. This function outputs the specified message at the specified priority level to the default system logger. If you want to have it output the log message to a user defined…

WordPress has many nice built in features and helper functions for us to use in our websites. Some of the basic conditional functions like is_page, is_single, and is_home are perhaps the most versatile and useful to developers and site owners. These functions simply return true or false for if you are on a page, post,…

Promotions are a very common aspect of store websites. Most promotions you create will have a set amount of time they are valid for. As a responsible site administrator you may want to know how to stop the promotional page from being displayed in Google’s search results after it expires. To let you do this…

In some instances you may have content on your website that you don’t want Google to archive. Google understands this and provides various META tags for you to use in notifying their crawler in how to handle your website’s content. Two such tags are NOSNIPPET and NOARCHIVE. NOARCHIVE The NOARCHIVE META tag is used to…

Beginner web developers may not be fully aware of the security vulnerabilities from shared hosting. Most shared hosting servers work by having a common php installation that uses the same php.ini configurations to run. What this means to the user is that all session information for all users are stored in a common directory on…

When writing a post to your WordPress powered blog or website have you ever wished you could split it up into multiple pages? The good news is that you can WordPress comes by default with the ability to create paginated posts by use of the Page-Link tag. This tag notifies WordPress that the following content…

How many times have you found yourself defining multiple find or search methods for obtaining data in your Web Applications. For example for a Users table you may have a findByName, findById, FindByEmail, and etc. Utilizing the iBATIS framework and SQL Maps we can have all these sql statements condensed into a single dynamic select…

Very often when developing a WordPress powered blog or website you may find that you need to add custom features. One of the most common feature requests that I have come across is to add an image to the excerpts that get displayed on the main posts/articles page. Some people will try to utilize the…

AddThis is a free easy to utilize web service that enables you to increase your site traffic by enabling visitors to easily bookmark and share your web pages and content with social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and so many more. The service works by letting you add a customizable button to your site that…