The plugin is easy to integrate but a little tricky to configure. There are 2 places where you need to edit:

1) The tinyMCE init function where you’ll have to add:

tinyMCE.init({
mode : “textareas”,
theme : “advanced”,
plugins : “Archiv”,
Archiv_settings_file : “/abs/path/to/config.php”,
theme_advanced_buttons1_add : “Archiv_files,Archiv_images”
});
2) The config file of the plugin in which the paths are required to be full paths not relative but i’ve tricked them like this:

# full path to upload files to and show files from
‘upload_path’            => $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. ‘uploaded/’,
# full URI to upload directory
‘upload_uri’            => ‘http://’. $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']. ‘/uploaded/’,

This should get you up and running. Tune the rest of the config options to suit your needs and enjoy this wonderful plugin. Many thanks to the authors.

Copy & paste this in to a file test.php on your server and run it on your favourite browser.

If the current script owner is the same as the user that php runs as, than suPHP works.

<?php

echo ‘Current script owner: ‘ . get_current_user(). ‘<br>’;
echo ‘UID:’ . getmyuid() . ‘<br>’;
echo ‘GID:’ . getmygid() . ‘<br>’;
echo ‘PID:’ . getmypid() . ‘<br>’;
echo ‘<br>’;
echo “PHP runs under the user: [" . system('whoami') . "]<br>”;

?>

To fix this add a html comment inside the div:

<div id=”smalldiv”> <!– –> </div>d

<?php

$text = “Around and around around and around and around “;

$image = imagecreatetruecolor(400,400);
$white = imagecolorallocate($image,255,255,255);
imagefill($image,0,0,$white);
$red = imagecolorallocate($image,255,0,0);

$degrees = (360/strlen($text));

for ($i=0;$i<strlen($text);$i++) {

$a = ($degrees*$i)+180;

$cos = cos(deg2rad($a));
$sin = sin(deg2rad($a));
$x = 0;
$y = 180;
$xt = round($cos*($x) – $sin*($y));
$yt = round($sin*($x) + $cos*($y));
imagettftext($image,20,180-($a),200+$xt,200+$yt,$red,”fonts/arial.ttf”,$text[$i]);

}

header(“Content-type: image/jpeg”);
imagejpeg($image,”",100);
imagedestroy($image);

?>

Here is the direct link to the script http://www.phpgd.com/scripts.php?script=25. You might look through the site because there are other many interesting scripts which may come useful in your projects.

Enjoy!

You can easily get rid of this so called “feature” by adding the following in the css style for your input:

background: #(your own color code) !important;

Adding “!important” will force the browser to use your code instead of the google toolbar color.

Enjoy !

Now, here’s a nice PHP plugin you can use to generate thumbnails in PHP. It’s called phpThumb and you can get it from phpthumb.sourceforge.net.

First of all take note that this plugin uses the GD or ImageMagick library so be sure you have at least one of them installed on your server/host. I’m using GD and it works just fine. ImageMagick has some extra features that I didn’t need, so be sure to check the official site for more details.

How To use phpThumb:

Copy the contents of the plugin somwhere in your site’s directory ( eg. /lib/phpThumb/ )

Rename the phpThumb.config.php.default to phpThumb.config.php. I didn’t modify this config at all but you might take a look inside it if you’d like to setup various parameters.

Having that done you can easily generate thumbnails like this:

<img src=”lib/phpthumb/phpThumb.php?src=nameofthefile.jpg&w=150&h=50&zc=1″  alt =”someText” />

w stands for width of course and h stands for height. zc means zoomCrop.

The plugin has a lot of other options and tweaks to play with, check’em out here.

Enjoy

1. Accessibility: most people will rather remember a path that looks like http://www.example.com/products/shoes/12/ than http://www.example.com/index.php?category=products&type=shoes&productid=12

2. Security: granted, this is security through obscurity, but at the very least it will hide from most users the server-side technology used (PHP, ASP, etc) and the passed variable names

3. SEO compliance: Web crawlers work by following links and caching the content found; however, they don’t parse anything beyond the filename, so generally index.php?category=products, index.php?category=pages and index.php are seen as a single address, index.php. On the other hand, /products/, /pages/ and / are seen as 3 separate folders, and your content will thus be indexed correctly.

So, you’re thinking “Yes, that would be nice” (or alternatively, “Yeah yeah,get to the point already”). What do you need?

Well, first of all, your pages have to be hosted on an Apache server. Since over 50% of the servers in the world run on Apache, that shouldn’t be a problem.

Secondly, it should have mod_rewrite activated. This is a bit trickier; most hosts have it on by default, but you should probably check with your host.

Finally, a good grasp of regular expressions helps, but isn’t mandatory.

So,  for basic URL rewriting, create a new file containing the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ index.php
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)(/)?$ index.php?page=$1 [NC]

This assumes, of course, that your paging is driven by  a variable called page

Save this file as .htaccess

Please note that .htaccess is the actual extension of the file, the filename being blank. If you save it as, for instance, .htaccess.txt, it will not work.

Here, the first line activates mod_rewrite. The second line redirects all incoming requests to index.php. Finally, the last one takes any input, followed by a slash or not, case-insensitive, and redirects it to index.php?page=[the input]

You should however be careful with this, as a user with malicious intent might exploit this. Thus, in your code, you should sanitize all the inputs, or, in case you only have a few “main” pages (such as About, Tutorials, Links and Downloads, for instance) you could modify the last rule thus:

RewriteRule ^(about|tutorials|links|downloads)(/)?$ index.php?page=$1 [NC]

This can be further modified, adding whatever RegEx you need. So, you use our first example, you can write

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)/([0-9]+)(/)?$ index.php?category=$1&type=$2&productid=$3 [NC]

I hope you found this useful

Update: For RegEx goodness, have a look at this article Mike Malone has posted: The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about regular expressions

So here’s how you should use it :

Copy the following lines in to the header of the webpage:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”JavaScript”>

<!– Begin
function clearPreloadPage() { //DOM
if (document.getElementById){
document.getElementById(‘prepage’).style.visibility=’hidden’;
}else{
if (document.layers){ //NS4
document.prepage.visibility = ‘hidden’;
}
else { //IE4
document.all.prepage.style.visibility = ‘hidden’;
}
}
}
// End –>
</SCRIPT>

Now add this to you body tag:

<BODY onLoad=”clearPreloadPage();”>

Then, in the body of the actual website, add the following that will display a loading message until the content of yout page is fully loaded.

<div id=”prepage” style=”position:absolute; font-family:arial; font-size:16; left:0px;top:0px; background-image:url(images/mainBg.gif); background-repeat:repeat; height:100%; width:100%;”>
<div style=”padding-top:350px; text-align:center;”><img src=”images/loading.gif” height=”20″ width=”20″ /><span style=”font-size:19px; color:#000000; height:”> Se Incarca…</span></div>

You can customise the first div and add your own background or whatever you want but keep its id = “prepage” and the position:absolute; left:0px;top:0px; elements in its style. Then, in the second div, place whatever text or animated gif you’d like to be displayed until the page is loaded.