Making code ugly is no fun to read nor maintain. I seen quite a bit of web page scripting code in PHP the last few years. One example that I see over and over again that is just terrible, involves generating HTML markup on the fly based on boolean conditions. Here we look at two common methods and another that is a bit more readable.
We take a look at what a Ubot command and function are and how you can structure your code to be more readable.
In a previous article, I talked about my idea of setting up a intermediate web page to serve as a go to for getting and retrieving database operations. Here I expand on this idea.
So you got one of those hot web automation tools. Your project requires that you store and retrieve data from a database. Unfortunately, your tool knows nothing about databases. Are you hosed?
This is one of the longer articles I have written over the years so give yourself some time. Grab a coke and some chips. I'm going to show you how to build an automation bot to check and track your Google ranking with UBot Studio.
Content Management Systems (CMS) don't do a very good job of laying out article content. Typically users just fire up an editor and type away in a linear top to down fashion. Along the way they enter in paragraphs, pictures, and other embedded content. When they are done, the visual layout is one column.
Here's a simple little code snippet to highlight text in a HTML textarea component.
UBot Studio is a fine web automation tool for getting things done quickly. So it should come as no surprise that if you want to automate your web projects on a Windows platform you can look to it to take on your tough tasks. One of the things that it currently doesn't offer is a simple means to append output to a file. Here we look into a way to get around that.
Sometimes the best way to educate yourself about an unknown subjects is to learn by doing. This weekend I did my own version of a Facebook Hackathon by creating a proxy judge.
Everyone can use a good anchor text scraper, right? I built a few before, but this one was much easier to build, thanks to an open source PHP library. With a few lines of code, you can retrieve all the anchor tags in one fell swoop. Lets dig in, shall we?
