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Free Social CMS like Digg, Mixx, Reddit

Hiroshi — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:22:30 +0000

After using a lot of social networking websites and communities have you ever wanted to have your own social website? Here is a solution for you. You do not need any kind of PHP or HTML skills to start with this one. Pligg is an open source social CMS (Content Management System) that you can download and use for free. Pligg CMS provides social networking software that encourages visitors to register on your website so that they can submit content and connect with other users. Pligg creates websites where stories are created and voted on by members, not website editors. Use Pligg content management system to start your own social networking community in minutes.

Pligg was created as a social networking CMS. While most content management systems are designed for only a handful of authors, Pligg CMS was designed to manage a site with an unlimited number of authors. All of these registered users are in control of the website’s content. It is a user driven CMS that relies on independent authors’ content and participation to manage news articles.

Pligg started as a simple CMS to let users submit and vote on news articles. Vote on stories that interest you and articles that receive enough votes will appear on the homepage of your Pligg site. Pligg offers a 5 star method for voting or the more traditional numbered voting as seen on sites like Digg, Mixx, or Reddit.

Features include groups, private messaging, advanced comment system, user profiles, modules system, smarty templates, easy upgrades, rss feeds, seo enhanced, multiple languages

Download Pligg
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PHPMagicBook Reloaded

Hiroshi — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:21:50 +0000

PHPMagicBook has been very modest, small, insignificant and under the hood. It is still modest but now with a fresh look. PHPMagicBook has got a new logo style. Lately we have not been posting enough due to lack of time and some other projects. We could not respond to guests. But now in following few days, you shall observe a start in regular activity here. We aim to solve problems for people who want to do it themselves. People who are designers and HTML developers, but can’t code PHP. In result they lose projects sometimes because they can not take whole project from starting point of Design and then HTML development and finally integration of PHP scripts at website to make it dynamic and responsive to its users. We just want to enable everybody to use PHP.

We provide working scripts. We test scripts, We write scripts and then we share it with you here. We are soon creating a section which will work like reference sheets for PHP scripts. You can not remember all PHP scripts you will ever need, right? So you need a reference sheet and ready to use functions of PHP. We are going to provide guests with the best practices and solution for PHP.

Check back soon and thanks to all PHPMagicBook guests, visitors, contributors and everybody who subscribed. PHPMagicBook has been reloaded and its going to start a new journey. Cheers!

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Change Your Blog or Forum Theme Color Scheme Online Live

Hiroshi — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:25:06 +0000

ColorizeIt is an online color scheme editor. You can select or upload a design, change colors, download modified design and use it. ColorizeIt is a perfect solution for owners of forums, blogs and turnkey websites. You no longer have to search for a design that matches color scheme you want, you can take any design and quickly alter its color scheme online.

Service is in beta phase. Still you can use it and its great. Editing requires no html/css knowledge at all, you don’t need to enter weird html color values, all editing is done by moving few sliders. Select a color you want to be changed, move few sliders to change it to color you want, then when you download a design that color will be changed in all html files, css and all images.

Go to Colorize it

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Change Prosilver Header and Logo in PHPBB – Working Solution

Hiroshi — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:50:53 +0000

You will install PHPBB and wonder what next? How to change its header and PHPBB logo? I did. First day I just stumbled through its admin settings, here and there and then searched quite a bit for default theme Prosilver’s customizations. Finally got it. Let’s come down to exactly how we do it. If you have been using WordPress then probably you will find PHPBB customization a bit nerdy task.

Go to sitename.com/styles/prosilver in your FTP
Folder Theme contains css files
Folder Template contains template files

Pay attention….

Change / Remove PHPBB Logo from Prosilver

Go to template directory.
There is a file template.cfg
Edit it.
Find a line in it (line no.25)
img_site_logo = site_logo.gif*52*139
Change logo width and height from it and change image name if you want. Save it.
If you change image name, upload that new image in the directory imageset

So far so good.
We are not done yet.

overall_header.html file in template directory contains some code you might want to check in.

Search there following line.

{SITE_LOGO_IMG}

Remove it if you want to remove logo completely.

We are not done yet.

Following two lines contains Title and site description in header. Remove or edit these.

{SITENAME}
{SITE_DESCRIPTION}

In my opinion, remove these lines, upload your logo image in imageset directory and change its name, width and height from file template.cfg in template directory.

We are not done yet.

If you will refresh site front side, it won’t show any changes. But changes have been made. I told you, we are not done yet buddy!

In theme directory, there are CSS files. Lots of them.

You might edit colours.css and common.css files to further modify header.

search for .headerbar style in both files and change properties accordingly – yep in both files. Here you can change background color and background image of header.

Find #logo id in common.css, set padding if you want.

Adding Additional Header Links

Come back to overall_header.html in template directory.

Find following lines.

Right under;

Start a DIV and close it there. In that DIV, you can place your additional header links.

We are not done yet!

Changing Footer

Find overall_footer.html file in template directory. Line no. 41 starts from ‘Powered by….’

Change it and add more if you want according to your needs.

Okay! Final and important step….

Where are Changes! Damn it!

Alright! I told you we are not done yet.
Go to Admin area (ACP) of PHPBB.
Go to Styles Tab.
Go to Style components (left side menu).
Under that there are:
* Templates
* Themes
* Imagesets
Browse these one by one.
In them you will find refresh link. Do it.

Refresh Templates.
Refresh Themes.
Refresh Imagesets

Now we are done; my friend. Check the front side now. Changes done! Its important to refresh templates, theme and imagesets to see changes in effect.

In start I was doing changes and did not refresh the theme and template and I could not see changes in site. I cursed PHPBB and went to sleep. With WordPress its all so easy. Click, click, click and you are there. PHPBB is tricky. Today I thought, Yeah! What the heck? Do it today. So, this is solution.

Want to see changes in header? See http://www.techmynd.net/

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Htaccess Mod Rewrite Practical Essential Important Solutions – Update

Hiroshi — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:11:59 +0000

I have been experimenting with .htaccess a lot regarding with mod rewriting and URL rewriting and had a lot of difficulty finding the solutions regarding to exact problem I faced. This stuff is such a headache. I am feeling headache right now as I am typing after messing with a lot of .htaccess codes. Here is an update regarding essential stuff which you will find useful if you are trying to change your URLS from index.php to index.html or index.php to index and if after putting RewriteEngine on images are not showing up at pages. Following exercises will answer these tasks in htacces mod rewrite:

1- How to enable RewriteEngine for htaccess and localhost
2- Images are not showing after RewriteEngine on
3- Images in second level directory are not showing after RewriteEngine on
e.g. images/1.jpg is showing but images/icons/2.jpg is not showing up
4- Want to change index.php into index or about.php into about
5- Want to change all pages.php to pages.html for site using htaccess
6- Want to Rewrite yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz to yoursite.com/xyz
7- Want to Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product/ipod-nano/12.html
8- Want to change product.php?id=5 to porduct-5.html

Enable ReWrite Engine

Before rewriting do this in .htaccess file.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

and after that start rewriting

Images not showing after RewriteEngine on

Solve images problem which sometimes does not show if you enable rewrite engine in .htaccess. I was trying to change index.php to index and when I did that, images from first images directory were displaying (images/) but the second level images (images/icons/) were not displaying. Even when I tried the absolute path, images from images/icons/ directory were not displaying. The trick is that, you have to rewrite images directory as well and similarly sometimes css and js directories also. In this case when I tried the following code, my problem was solved.

RewriteRule ^images/(.+)?$ images/$1 [NC,L] 
# RewriteRule ^images/icons/(.+)?$ images/icons/$1 [NC,L]

First line in above example solved my problem and I did not need the second in my case.

There is problem with Browsers which don’t recognize that folders you typed are not real So there is problem with images and css style. In another case consider the following example.

All you have to do is mod rewrite all your image, css and js folders like below:

RewriteRule ^pictures/images/(.+)?$ images/$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^pictures/css/(.+)?$ css/$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^pictures/js/(.+)?$ js/$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^pictures/php/(.+)?$ php/$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^pictures/([0-9]+)?$ pictures.Php?year=$1 [NC,L]

Redirect index.php to index

Okay, you have to do this with all the pages separately. In the following case I have done these with two pages. Index.php and about.php. I don’t know yet what is the solution for doing it in single line for every page.

RewriteRule index index.php
RewriteRule about about.php

so on…

Important: You have implemented this code in .htaccess file. Now your like for yoursite.com/about.php will be yoursite.com/about. You will have to link the text with this modified call (with no .php) and .htaccess will do the magic where you have defined the rule to change about.php to about. That’s it.

Change .php URLs in .html

Now this one I know. Single line of code will do the magic. You have all the pages of site in php, but after writing this single line code in .htaccess, they will be changed into .html. I mean the URLs will be changed to .html. Link your pages with .html extension and write this code in .htaccess file and you are done.

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [NC]

For htm do this.

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ $1.php [NC]

Rewriting yoursite.com/user.php?username=xyz to yoursite.com/xyz

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ user.php?username=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ user.php?username=$1

Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product/ipod-nano/12.html

RewriteRule ^product/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)\.html$ product.php?id=$2

And change product.php?id=5 to porduct-5.html so that http://localhost/product-5.html calls product.php?id=5 automatically

RewriteRule ^product-([0-9]+)\.html$ products.php?id=$1

Done…

Please help me learn and do more with this htaccess stuff. If you know more about this, want to correct / improve these codes or offer more advanced codes to do the same what I have mentioned above, share with me in comments.

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Protect Hotlink the Right Way Using htaccess

Hiroshi — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:27:51 +0000

Protect hotlinking the right way. There are content stealers out there who will copy your links and images and display them at their websites in result of which you pay more for bandwidth. If you do not do it the right way, you can block google and feedburner also. Here is a code to do it the right way. Any incoming direct request for your image file, zip file or rar will will display your specified image instead of that.

Add this code into your .htaccess file and make sure you change ‘yoursitename’ there.

Options +FollowSymlinks
# Protect Hotlinking
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+.)?yoursitename.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?google.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?feedburner.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?feeds2.feedburner.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png|zip|rar)$ http://yoursitename.com/someimage.jpg [L]

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Hide Ads from Admin at Blog

Hiroshi — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:01:38 +0000

You can trace which user is logged in. Users at WordPress have levels for access. Admin access level is 10. You can simply trace if the admin is logged in and hide ads from your blog so that admin may not see ads. If you are admin of a blog and post a lot then its a chance that you submit impressions for ads by yourself while checking your posts after publishing. More impressions but less click = less earnings. Hide your ads from you. You definitely don’t want to click your own ads, for sure. That’s why it is useful to hide your own ads from you to reduce load time + avoid impressions you do not want + more earnings.


global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
if ($current_user->user_level == 10 )echo 'Welcome, Admin';
else echo 'Welcome!';
?>

 global $current_user; 
get_currentuserinfo(); 
if ($current_user->user_level == 10 ) { ?>
  Admin Stuff here (leave blank)
 } else { ?>
  Stuff Seen By Visitors
 } ?>

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Change Default WordPress Gravatar in Comments

Hiroshi — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:52:20 +0000

If you use a plugin to add avatars to your blog, there might be a setting in the plugin’s options page for choosing the default avatar. If you use WordPress 2.5+, then you probably use a template tag like the following for your avatars.

 echo get_avatar( $comment, 32 ); ?>

You can easily modify this code to show a default customized gravatar to appear if the comment author has no gravater to show.

Just add a comma after the 32 (The pixel size of the image, if you want to change that while you’re at it!), and paste in the URL to your image. e.g.

 echo get_avatar( $comment, 80, 'http://www.yourblogaddress.com/my-gravatar.jpg' ); ?>

Now the comments on your posts will have a much nicer image that draws less attention, promotes recognition of your logo, and as so few blogs have a unique default avatar, it shows your attention to detail.

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Only Allow Your IP to Access Website or Blog Admin

Hiroshi — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:35:57 +0000

If you are the only owner of any website or blog and want to protect your admin directory then you can allow that admin directory for just your IP and deny from all others. Here it is how.

# just allow my computer and my IP to access admin of this site
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from xxx.xx.x.xxx

Where xxxxx digits will contain your IP address. This example will work if you use a static IP. You can check your IP from here.

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Hide WordPress WP-Admin Login Page

Hiroshi — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:20:05 +0000

Here is a code which you can use to hide your wp-admin screen. Change YOURSECRETWORDHERE to something else. It can be any word you want. Just make sure it’s unique and somewhat long. Make it, like, your pets name or something random. Change ADMINFOLDER to the new folder name you want. Letters, numbers, underscores, and dashes only. That ^ in front of it is on purpose. Don’t delete that. Back up your original .htaccess file before making any changes. I am not responsible for any mess up.

<4>.htaccess Code

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase / 
##### ABOVE THIS POINT IS ALREADY INSERTED BY WORD PRESS
##### Michi’s code is BELOW #####
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} wp-admin/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !YOURSECRETWORDHERE
RewriteRule .*.php [F,L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !YOURSECRETWORDHERE
RewriteRule ^ADMINFOLDER/(.*) wp-admin/$1?%{QUERY_STRING}&YOURSECRETWORDHERE [L]
##### Michi’s code is ABOVE #####
##### BELOW THIS POINT IS ALREADY INSERTED BY WORD PRESS
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

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