Web Log of Greg Mathews

This is just a plug for a friend of mine who has just started his own blog. He opens it at http://www.scriptlancerblog.com/2007/09/30/freelancing/

He is a freelance programmer who works mostly on Scriptlance so please pop over and give his blog a read.

Greg

As someone selling perl scripts online you are a target for fraudulent paypal payments and as long as there are idiots online that fall for every spoof email around asking for paypal details that will always be the case.

This week though has really concerned me, in August one script was purchased twice by the same person, this is not as strange is it may appear as some people do do the right thing and pay for more than one copy of the script if they are using it on different sites, however Paypal did not like the look of it and carried out one of their investigations. At the end of August they decieded they transactions where fraudulent and cancelled them, refunding the buyer in full for each transaction.

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Well I thought it was time to upgrade my Blog to a more ’standard’ program. I was using a perl script from Greymatter until yesturday but have now installed the Wordpress blog.

This does go hand in hand with me learning php as the wordpress blog scripts are written in php so I am hoping to learn from them.

Over the next day or so I am going to play with the templates to see what I can do.

Greg

OK in my last post a few minutes ago I mentioned a login script I found and played with at http://evolt.org/article/comment/17/60265/index.html which is a great little script.

Although I want to learn how to do things in PHP I don’t want to reinvent the wheel, after just confirming that I had given the correct url, I found the author had released another version with more features, a few I have already done and others I have not done but had intended to.

So I am going to take a proper look at this later script available from http://evolt.org/PHP-Login-System-with-Admin-Features and see if I should start again using this version of the script or keep the one I have but just take a few idea’s from this one?

The reason I am using these script is they both have a great little ‘tutorial’ with them explaining what each file does.

Greg

OK over the past few weeks I’ve had to make some changes to improve the SERPs for some of my sites as a few where dropping out of the results seriously.

I have just this week started playing with PHP as mentioned in the last few posts, I am still not 100% sure of what I am doing but I thought the best place to start would be by having a members log in.

By searching the web I found a basic PHP login script at http://evolt.org/article/comment/17/60265/index.html which stores just the username and password. This turned out to be a good script to play with as it uses a mysql database as well as sessions.

Looking through this script I found it fairly simple to add things such as name, url etc to the registration page and display the members details once they have logged in.

I am hoping that while playing with these little php scripts I can work out exactly what I want to do with the information I pick up from it.

I promise that it will not be another month before I post again.

Greg