Ereads.com has launched!

After hundreds of hours of programming, designing, and data entry, the ereads website launched yesterday. About Ereads E-Reads is a trail-blazing reprinter of out-of-print genre and general fiction and nonfiction by leading authors. Their books are available in all e-book formats and paperback. E-Reads was founded by literary agent, Richard Curtis. About the Website: Before Ereads.com used to be...

A simple way to hide your wordpress website until launch.

Recently I had to revamp a website for a client. The website was using Word Press to power it and so I had to do some template editing that would make the website look very broken while I was experimenting. What I did was stop Word Press from running at all unless a get request happened. To do this you must first find “index.php” in the root folder on your blog. It should look empty aside...

Software Review : Ccleaner – A free way to clean up a windows machine.

Ccleaner is the real deal. It’s a free software that offers a lot of great computer cleaning tools. Ccleaner has become part of my routine when doing maintenance to computers. Here’s the CNET review: Although it lacks a few of the bells and whistles found in other PC-cleaning applications, this free program offers more than enough features to make it a worthy download. CCleaner’s...

Send A txt msg to any phone from your email.

Do you need to send a text message out, but your phone is outta commission? Or are you out of texts? Cell phone carriers forward incoming emails to the phones. Here is a list of email domains based on the carrier: Alltel [10-digit phone number]@message.alltel.com Example: 1234567890@message.alltel.com AT&T (formerly Cingular) [10-digit phone number]@txt.att.net [10-digit phone number]@mms.att.net...

PHP Function: remove special characters from post data

Since I began programming 6 years ago I always had trouble with collecting data from forms. Users tend to copy and paste data into them, capturing special characters in the process. The special chars then end up in the mysql data as some random garbage, then it appears on the website as weird symbols. A while back I asked a programmer friend of mine if he had a function that would help out with this....

Intro to PHP: 01 “the echo”

If your just getting into PHP you first need to know how it works. PHP actually creates HTML on the server side before the user loads the page. PHP is in charge of checking for arguments, getting data from databases and sending emails. PHP is also capable of much more if modules are installed on the server. Getting your feet wet: What you need to know: HTML FTP An understanding of how web servers...