I have been always searching for a PHP function that could rewrite the mysql date to a descriptive PHP date form. Dates stored in MySQL database usually in the format of YYYY-MM-DD.

There will be situations where you might want to output the date stored in mysql in a more descriptive for users in your website. For example you might want to show 2007-03-11 as 11 March 2007 which is more easily readable and easy to understand.

I wrote this MySQL2Date() …

I have experienced many spam attacks on forms which are used for submission or contact forms. Most spammers use this forms to either mass email or in situations you dont use image verification (captcha) these spams will get into your database. Many hosts are very strict about spams and if they find somebody misusing your mail server for spam your host will suspend your account.

I have collected very useful CAPTCHA scripts are of open source and written in PHP. Most …

Offering Phone & Fax support for your website visitors could increase the reputation among your clients. If you are thinking of getting a toll free (800/866) phone and fax numbers for your online office, it is worth looking at the following websites.

Skype Phone – http://www.skype.com
Kall8 – http://www.kall8.com (phone/fax)
BroadVoice – http://www.broadvoice.com
iPhonex – http://www.inphonex.com
RingCentral – http://www.ringcentral.com  (phone/fax)

K7 – http://www.k7.net (free fax number)
TrustFax – http://www.trustfax.com (low cost fax no)

I have decided to publish my long awaited
top 20 web directories list based on various criteria like

* Age
* Page Rank (PR)
* Site Quality & Design
* SEO friendly pages
* Google Backlinks
* Google Indexed Pages

The following web directories are rated as top 20 directories without any bias or any self-promotion. I did get good feedback from the directory owners community at digitalpoint.

1. Yahoo Directory (Paid) – http://www.dir.yahoo.com

2. DMOZ Open Directory Project (free) – http://www.dmoz.org

3. Business.com (Paid) – http://www.business.com

4. BOTW Best of the …

Nobody wants to see your site down. If your site goes down because of high traffic or server load you could lose significant revenue each day. As traffic rises more and more with my site I am counting the number of days to move from a shared hosting plan to a VPS (Virtual Private Server) or a dedicated server.

People say that VPS are much cheaper than dedicated option. Nonethless, unless your site is on a very high load you don’t …

XAMPP is a very good Linux server package w/ Apache, MySQL,PHP  running in Windows just like server runs in linux. You can download http://www.apachefriends.org

I noticed that by default mod-rewrite is not enabled with apache server coming with it. It is very important to enable this module if you want to rewrite URLs and generate search friendly pages. To check whether you have this already installed just create a file named test.php with content of phpinfo() inside php tags.

and point your …

If you run a blog or a news site you might want to get your site included in Google News. Not only it would get good decent traffic to your site but also get your site content to millions of news readers worldwide.

Google is looking for quality and trusted sources with quality content from sites and bloggers and it has been increasingly difficult to get into google news. Most of the suggest sources are mostly not accepted by google. Most …

At last i had an opportunity to buy and see the new apple iPod nano. I opted for Nano because it costs about $150 and has display screen with 2GB memory (for 500 songs). Just as i expected the device is awesome! Its very slim, excellent sound output which i have never seen in any mobile phones. Previously i was listening to music from mobile phone. Wow!

Some of the very interested things that really got my attention with ipods are…

Handy …

I am posting here some of the PHP scripts which are must have ones when you develop a site. All of them are licensed under free open source GNU/GPL license.

WordPress  – Very popular blogging script in PHP. You can also create a full scale website with this script. It is free and GPL.

phpBB – A forum script to run a forum in your site.

phpMyAdmin – A Web based Mysql database administration software.

Xampp Server – If you want to run LAMP (linux apache …

Wordpress has become so popular and almost every blogger knows about it. Just download the wordpress, install and start blogging. But it isnt enough only with wordpress software. You will need some more additional plugins like socialize plugin /adman (for adsense) to market your blog and of course to make some money.

Here are the must have additional plugins that should be installed with your blog..

Sociable 1.2
Social bookmarking plugin. It allows your readers to bookmark your blog post or page in …