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Category Archives: open source
Guitar Chord fingering with PHP
After cleaning up some old files in my archive, I found this snippet of code I made a while ago. Basically, it just shows all the combinations of a single guitar chord on a neck when you choose it from … Continue reading
3D walkthrough in Basic
Just had a blast from the past… found this a while ago. This was a program I wrote way back in the days of Basic. It was a basic 3D walk through. ?View Code BASIC1 2 3 4 5 6 … Continue reading
SimplePHPMailer: now with required fields
SimplePHPMailer – my open source plug-n-play emailing script for PHP newbs – has been updated. It now has required fields – no more blank submissions! Check it out here http://aaronsaray.com/blog/2008/04/24/simplephpmailer/ with the updated download link.
Elgg Development Tools – Elgg Plugin
After working some with the open source Community building application Elgg, I found some settings to be irritating. I had to keep hacking my plugins to get these settings activated the way I wanted. Also, I really wanted to put … Continue reading
PHP.ini creator
While listening to someone complain through twitter about their MySQL conf file, I came up with a cool idea: what if I created a PHP.ini creator that would suggest changes to your php.ini file as well as generate an updated … Continue reading
dtemplate: dynamic template system for static designed files
One of the biggest time wasters I deal with is parsing out static web designs given to me by designers. They don’t know programming, so they design it with static HTML in mind. Even if you’re using a tool like … Continue reading
Timetracker Timeclock
The 102 Degrees Timeclock software package is a very simple interface for keeping track of time. Instead of purchasing a timeclock, you could resurrect an old laptop and run this software on it. With a very simple clean interface, even … Continue reading
SimplePHPMailer
There are a very small amount of really easy to implement PHP mailer scripts in the wild. They usually try to pump so many features into them that it becomes difficult to implement or too large of a file. For … Continue reading
Meta Tag Generator
Meta Tag Generator uses javascript to generate the proper format for some common meta tags. This was originally just a proof of concept script that I decided to release. Meta Tag Generator
PHP Shared Host – Session File Browser Script
PHP stores its session information into flat files unencrypted by default. In shared hosting situations, this can be a big security issue. This script allows easy access to the attributes of these files as well as decoding of the values … Continue reading