Category Archives: Technology

How do I get php files to run on a schedule?

By Demian Perry | Published: 04 Mar 2009

Say you want to grab dynamic data from the web, analyze it, and pass it on to your audience. Or you want to augment your blog with links and descriptions of stories from your favorite news sources and blogs. Creating this dynamically on each request is bad web citizenship, because it means that, as your audience grows, so does the server load on your source servers Plus, it'll mean long load times on your site, and you won't be able to do as much analysis and data crawling as you could if you aggregated it all on your server.

Posted in Technology | Tagged cron, cronjob, crontab, godaddy, PHP | 1 Comment

Tutorial: beginners’ guide to setting up a website

By Demian Perry | Published: 28 Feb 2009

In a previous article, I gave some tips on how to pick a web host. Here we discuss the best way to set up your hosting and development environment.

Posted in Technology | Tagged development environment, introduction, jquery, mysql, PHP, tutorial | 2 Comments

How to set up an HTTP Proxy in PHP

By Demian Perry | Published: 13 Feb 2009

The proliferation of XML standards such as RSS have made it easy to grab data from external sources and repost it on your own site. Generally websites that output their data into well-formed XML are happy to have you redistribute their content for “personal, non-commercial use.” The code is fairly simple:

Posted in Technology | Tagged DOMdocument, getElementsByTagName, http proxy, PHP | 1 Comment