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Getting stock quote

In this tutorial I will show you how you can get any stock quotes from yahoo and display it on your own site.

• Tags
  • display quotes,
  • display tutorial,
  • yahoo stock quotes
• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Freeware

How to create a link checker

In this tutorial I will show you how to create your own basic link validate script to check link availability on any site.

• Tags
  • check your link,
  • link script tutorial
• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Freeware

Get actual weather information

In this tutorial I will show you how you can retrive actual weather information from Yahoo Weather and display this information on your own site.

• Tags
  • display tutorial,
  • weather
• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Freeware

Download files with cURL

A snippet that helps you download files from the web, with the use of the well known cURL library for php

• Tags
  • curl php,
  • php curl,
  • php download files,
  • php files download,
  • php library,
  • php snippet
• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Freeware

Fetch the description, title && keywords

This script first tries to find the meta tags including the description, title and keywords of a web page and if it does not get any, it will extract the content using the Curl library and the iconv function which takes into consideration the differe...

• Tags
  • get page title,
  • live keywords,
  • meta tags,
  • script function,
  • script library,
  • script title page
• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Freeware

How to get all META data of a website

In this tutorial I will show you how you can easy check META information of any website. It can be very usefull in search engine optimization when you want to check your competitors settings.

• Tags
  • meta search
• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • Windows,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Mac OSX,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Freeware

Server Status Checker

This small script will allow you to check if the servers on a website are online or offline.

• Platforms
  • Linux
• Licenses
  • Commercial License,
  • Free for non-commercial use

Dynamic thumbnails from websites

This tutorial will show you how to create dynamic thumbnails from websites using the thumbnail service Girafa.

• Platforms
  • Linux
• Licenses
  • Freeware

Parse html with preg_match_all

For the most of the PHP scripter which are using preg_match or preg_replace frequently is the function preg_match_all a smaller advantage, but for all others it s maybe hard to understand. The biggest difference between preg_match_all and the regular...

• Tags
  • array function php,
  • array php,
  • array to php,
  • array values php,
  • for function php,
  • function php,
  • is number php,
  • php array,
  • php function,
  • php store
• Platforms
  • Linux
• Licenses
  • Freeware

Optimized script for fetching google pagerank

Most scripts written for getting a google pagerank connect to the google servers everytime someone views a page where the script is called. Depending on how busy your site is this can mean that you connect to google thousands of times each day to ge...

• Tags
  • display image,
  • generate html code,
  • generate html code image,
  • google pagerank script,
  • html scripts,
  • image display,
  • pagerank,
  • pagerank scripts,
  • script pagerank,
  • tests
• Platforms
  • Linux
• Licenses
  • Freeware

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