Section: Development
Pay-Per-Download site up and running!
Robert Leitch | 29.08.2007
I think it's now safe to say that my pay-per-download site is finally up and running. There are still some 'tweaks' to be done, like making the markup and CSS standards-compliant, as well as some imporvements to the admin side and the overall design, but these are minor matters and otherwise all is going to plan.
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The beauty of PHP's Output Buffer
Robert Leitch | 27.08.2007Not long ago I uderwent something of a 'career change', and took it as an opportunity to spend some time working on largely-abandoned websites. Starting with VisaRus, I decided to give it a facelift and a CSS template.
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Experimenting with database-driven websites
Robert Leitch | 22.05.2007I read a long time ago about how made-for-Google sites were 'destroying the internet'. The sale of databases designed for creating 'instant websites' led to thousands of sites popping up with massive amounts of duplicate material, all carrying AdSense or similar ppc adverts...
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Private messaging spam
Robert Leitch | 14.03.2007VisaRus has been getting hit by a lot of spammers lately. They're signing up and spamming penpal adverts, pm links in the forums, everything they can get their hands on. I've had more complaints this week than I usually get in two months.
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Shopping Cart & Catalogue
Robert Leitch | 16.02.2007
I've been working on the shopping cart/catalogue
project (used on topetersburgwithlove.com,
formerly on mullfineproduce.co.uk
and soon to be implemented in a modified form on InterLingua
Publications).
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Keeping sites spam-free
Robert Leitch | 11.02.2007A few ideas came to me a few days ago, when I was populating a list of stop words for the expete.com
forum. If a user makes a post with any of these words, the system
automatically alerts the moderator of the forum the post was submitted
to, or sends an alert to the administrator if the forum does not have a
moderator assigned.
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Pay-to-Download site for InterLingua
Robert Leitch | 04.02.2007
I'm looking forward to launching InterLingua Publications, which will be my take on a pay-per-download site for e-books, program scripts and other electronic goods. The system works with the database-driven catalogue & shopping cart I originally used for my sister's site, mullfineproduce.co.uk (currently undergoing major reconstruction).
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