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I discovered this interesting PHP class today that can be used to process all kinds of .ico files in PHP. Features Read/write icon files. Extract individual icons from a multi-icon file as GD icon resources. Add new icons to an .ico file. Supports all icon image sizes, bit depths and transparency. You can find the […]

This is a plugin for WordPress that can automatically cloak outgoing links in your posts and/or pages. Download plugin (Note: May not be compatible with the latest version of Eclipse Link Cloaker.) Features Choose what to cloak – all links, only the links you specify or no links at all. Choose where to cloak – […]

I’ve seen people asking on the Internet if there’s a way to get a list of the most bookmarked pages from a specific site. Some other social bookmarking services (like Digg) have this feature but del.icio.us doesn’t. This looked like an interesting problem so I decided to write a script that would crawl a given […]

What would you do if you wanted to run several instances of a PHP script that each work on a portion of a MySQL table, without interfering with each other and trying to grab the same rows? I don’t know the correct answer to this, but here’s what I did. It’s a rant, yeah.

A PHP function that extracts all URLs from a page and another one that translates a relative URL to absolute URL. Originally I wrote this for a crawler script.