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Search Engine Friendly URLs with IIS and Classic ASP
by Marcel Feenstra |
A few years ago, I needed a Content Management System (CMS) for my site Voor Beginners and its English counterpart For Beginners. One of the requirements was, that the CMS should use "search engine friendly" URLs. This is fairly easy to accomplish with Linux and Apache; however, another requirement was that the CMS should run on the Windows platform... In this article, I will show how you can "simulate" the effects of .htaccess and mod_rewrite using Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) and classic ASP.
Read More »February 02, 2007, in Backend
Ultimate htaccess Examples
by apachehtaccess |
Here's my list of the ultimate htaccess code snippets and examples that I use all the time. I tried to keep them extremely minimalistic.
Read More »January 10, 2006, in Backend
AJAX Login System using XMLHttpRequest
by ucahg | The new buzzword Ajax, barely out of infancy, has turned a lot of heads lately. See what the fuss is about with a demonstration of a secure login system that doesn't require any page refresh or form submittals. Read More »
December 29, 2003, in Backend
PHP coding guidelines
by pwaring | The guidelines that I follow when writing my PHP scripts; can be helpful to have something like this if you're working on a joint project. Read More »
November 24, 2003, in Backend
Tracking your users in the access logs
by calimehtar | Server logs, ubiquitous and humble as they are, deserve a second look. They are most web sites' only source for statistically relevant information about user behaviour and with a little creativity you can get much more out of them than your preconfigured log analysis application might lead you to believe. Read More »
September 09, 2003, in Backend
Storing form array data to MySQL using PHP
by webinista | Got an array from a form? Need to store it to a database? Here's how. Read More »
July 23, 2003, in Backend
Add Geography to your Web Site for a Better View
by glothin | How can a science that studies the features and characteristics of a space (e.g. the Earth) improve our websites? In this article I will introduce examples of methods we can use involving geography to improve site usability by adding unique visualization to our sites. Read More »
May 31, 2003, in Backend
Mask Your Web Server for Enhanced Security
by port80 | Masking or anonymizing a Web server involves removing identifying details that intruders could use to detect your OS and Web server vendor and version. This information, while providing little or no utility to legitimate users, is often the starting place for crackers, blackhat hackers and "script kiddies". This article explores some ways you can minimize the risk of such detection. Read More »
April 13, 2003, in Backend
Password encryption: rationale and Java example
by madeonmoon | Most of the web sites today have some sort of a registration module where a user is asked to choose a username/password combination. You might wonder if the password you provide will be kept well-protected (read encrypted). In case you are the person designing such backend registration component, why not give your users peace of mind by encrypting their passwords? Read More »
March 27, 2003, in Backend
Using PEAR's mimeDecode module
by gvtulder | In this article, we will explore the mimeDecode module of PEAR to see how we can easily decode MIME email. Read More »
