Aaron Saray

open source programmer,
web developer

entrepreneur, author
and musician

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Tag Archives: open source

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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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JS Tool – Security Auditing in Javascript

JSTool was a trial run of combining many different scripts from the open source community into a security and auditing script. Features would include history viewing, website status reporting and port scanning. Very little original code – just combinations of … Continue reading

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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

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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

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