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User Input filtering in PHP

Hello guys, Am currently working on an application that requires users to submit posts and comments which is displayed on the site. As we all know that user input can't be trusted so i used htmlspecialchars($string,ENT_QUOTES) to process user's posts and comments. Now, i want some certain html tags ignored. such as <b><br /> and a few...

SubDomains for blogs

Am I creating competitors for my site by creating subdoamins... becos Google treats subdomains as individual domains... so, am I going to create/build competitors for my website.... I want to go for subdomains.. please explain me the drawbacks and at the same time advantages of having subdomains... One more question... subfolders are m...

action caching and queued posts in rails

I have a landing page on rails with "blog" style posts. Since it's the most visited page on the site, I'm using action caching. The cache is cleared upon a change of the model. However, when adding new blog posts, i'd like to be able to create posts in the --future-- (a la queueing posts in Tumblr). So simply observing the model won't...

Charging for Access

Hello, Can anyone recommend a software package that has the following features: Allows admins to post content into one of three categories. Content in category #1 is available for free to registered users Category #2 is available for a one time fee or a "standard" yearly subscription Category #3 is available for a different one time fe...

building portal / blog like in iwannabemom.com using joomla

Hi, I need some recommendations ... I was asked to built a web portal/blog that looks like http://iwannabemom.com/(they use wordpress) the reason i am using joomla because i have some components that i need to implement on joomla instead of using wordpress. what is the components for (joomla 1.5): 1. top news (can be scrolled). I know...

PHP Blog, need to make a good looking archives section.

So! Basically I have a database with a load of blog posts, these are all sorted by a UNIX timestamp, and what I need is a way to make this code spit out headers when appropriate, so that it will output something like this: 2008 November Title 1 - Date Goes Here Title 2 - Date Goes Here December Title 3 - Date Goes Here 2009 Januar...

What's your best tip on marketing your programming blog?

I've just started freelancing and with it I have created a blog which I will write about open source projects I'm involved in, tutorials etc. Why I started the blog market myself as a freelance developer. So I'm sitting down now and thinking about ways to market yourself. Here's what I have come up with: Join forces with other blogg...

Blog engines for ASP.Net (maybe MVC) web sites

I've built a web site on ASP.NET MVC and one little section of it should be a blog. I'm looking for a blog to integrate. In the worst case scenario it'd be a WordPress with a custom skin and RSS integration to the rest of the site. The best would be to have an ASP.NET MVC add-on, but I can live with ASP.NET WebForms. Do you have any rec...

How can I show different content to website visitors from a specific country in PHP?

On my Wordpress blog, I want to show additional content to people from Finland on all pages. Very much like the Feedback button at the left edge of the screen on printfriendly.com. How can I achieve this most reliably using PHP? ...

liferay workflow to preview / review blog comments

Hi There, is there a some out of the box workflow, which helps you to review blog comments in liferay. Eg. Post blog entry -> User comments blog entry -> Mail goes to moderator about/with new entry -> User write s****S ;-) -> moderator denies to publish entry or / and is there a way to check it against stopwords at submit. E.G. check f...

I need some new blogs to help learn my new language (it's C).

I'm a BIG blog reader. I can't stop reading blogs. Blogs helped me find this site (in particular Jeff's blog). However I've come to realize that all the blogs I read deal with one language. Coding Horror Fabulous Adventures In Coding Jon Skeet's Blog Scott Hanselman's Blog Did you guess the language? Well now I'm learning C and usi...

How to make HTML written by users on a site, not conflict with the site's stylesheets?

I have a website that allows a user to create blog posts. There are some backlisted tags but most standard HTML tags are acceptable. However, I'm having issues with how the pages get displayed. I keep the HTML wrapped in its own div. I would ultimately like to keep the HTML from the user separate from the main sites stylesheets so it...

Display Google Spreadsheet by Google Chart

Does anyone try to populate the data from Google Spreadsheet, and format them in Google Chart, and display it in somewhere of the blog? How to do it in a principled way? I know there are official API (e.g., Java) to retrieve data from Google Spreadsheet, but does it help? ...

What are the best blogs for staying up to date on C#, ASP.NET, LINQ, SQL, C++, Ruby, Java, Python?

Apologies if this repeats another - but I couldn't fine one like it. My day to day programming spans a fair number of technologies: C#, ASP.NET, LINQ / SQL, C++, Ruby, Java, Python in approximately that order. It's a struggle to keep up to date on any of best practices, new ideas, innovation and improvements, let alone all. Therefore,...

What are some good game programming web sites, blogs, newsgroups, and podcasts?

What are some good game programming web sites, blogs, newsgroups, and podcasts? There is GameDev.net and the Game Development Algorithms list ([email protected]). What other sites, blogs, etc have you found on game programming? ...

How do blog systems do this?

I have a social network so a blog is only you could say a widget of the site for a user, so every user can have a blog, I would like to make this blog as nice as possible. WHen you go to a users blog page it shows all blogs for the current month. My question, how can I show a column on the side like this July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 Ap...

Integrating Facebook with Wordpress or Drupal

I just want to get some opinions before I tackle this head on. So far, I've set up a wordpress site and managed to get all post made on this site, appear on facebook on notes. However, all the plugins that do the following functionality that I require, have either been discontinued, or stopped working due to facebook changing their layou...

Storing Data in Files on the Server rather than in Databases?

What are the problems associated with storing your Data in files rather than databases? I'm thinking in terms of something like a blog engiene. I read that MoveableType used to do this. What are the pros/cons of working this way? ...

How should google crawl my blog?

I was wondering how (or if) I should guide Googlebot through my blog. Should I only allow visiting pages with single entries or should it also crawl the main page (which also has full entries)? My concern is that the main page changes when I add a new post and google keeps the old version for some time. I also find directing people to th...

Blog engine supporting multiple blogs in ASP.NET?

I'm using ASP.NET on my current website and now I need to add some blogs to the site. I need at least 5 multiple blogs and I'm looking for a solution in ASP.NET. I have been using WordPress before and was looking at Wordpress MU but as I'm running ASP.NET on this website it seems like a bad idea to combine these two. Also the blog is go...