Webmaster Six Pack

Don't pay $50 or more to some muppet for these 6 handy webmaster tools. Take them from here instead. If you want to re-use any of the code on these pages, feel free. My souce is your source. View Source. You can do anything you like with it, commercial or non-commercial. You can pretend its yours if you like. I did, though the ideas for all these 6 tools came from cleverer types than me.

I'd be grateful for a link back to http://www.karenandalex.com/php_stuff/ of course, though its a hopeful request, not a condition. None of the code comes with any warranty, implied or anything. What does that mean? I dunno but everybody puts it on their websites in these depressingly litigious times. Anyhow, you use it at your own risk, which is probably fairly slight in the way of the world...

All the best,

- Alex Poole

alexpoole ~at~ wwwcrm.com

» Affiliate Link Cloaker

» Email Address Cloaker

» HTML Encryptor

» Page Printing Preventer

» Redirect Maker

» Right Click Preventer

» De-Duplifier - de-dupe, clean and manipulate columns of data (OK that makes it 7. I won't complain if you don't)

Proper PHP...

OpenSSL PHP - Ugly little class which nevertheless encapsulates the basic useful asynchronous encryption and decryption functionality of the OpenSSL PHP module. Want to store things on a shared server that even the sysadmin can't read? ;-)

PC Security

PC Security Secrets Revealed (PDF - 550Kb) - I wrote this in 2003 (though it's quite possibly more relevant now then it was then, as security issues become ever more of a concern for anyone online.) I used to charge $17.47 for it on ClickBank, and sold a fair few copies. Now grab a copy for free with my compliments, and take at least some of the simpler actions it recommends, to save yourself a pile of pain.

This is the same document that some internet marketers who bought the reprint rights from me in 2004 are still selling today for over $20. It discusses where to get free firewalls, free spyware software and free anti-virus (which I've been using for 5+ years now with no problems thus far...)

If you would like to mirror this download then please do so. However, if you could provide a link back here, I'd be grateful.

Stop wasting time

This quick video shows you how to use a couple of handy tools in conjunction to dissuade yourself from visiting timewasting websites, checking your email all the time or any of those other myriad of things you can do online to waste hours. Control yourself, or at least enjoy the illusion of control for a little while...

Resize Images

This Resize Image script will take any jpg, png or gif up to 1280 x 1280, and resize it, maintaining aspect ratio, to any size you wish. Handy. Grab the Resize Images PHP Source code if you wish. It is offered with no warranty, implied or otherwise, as always. Neither do I have much time to offer support for this script, although you will find the code reasonably well commented.

Google's China Shame?

Are Google abiding by Chinese government restrictions, or actively aiding them? You judge. The results for the search 'Falun Gong' suggest to me that Google is not just filtering out censored results, but actively replacing them with Chinese-Government-Approved ones. © 2006 Blah.