The WF PHP Functions War Chest

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Seeing as we've got some seriously talented programmers on this board, I figured it would be great to have a thread dedicated to our toys so everyone here can bask in our awesomeness.

Guidelines

  • All code should be php (either oop or function based)
  • Include all code inside vb php tags
  • If the code is more than 20 lines, please comment sensibly
  • Post the code and then show how to properly use it
  • 1 post per function/class, this will keep things a bit more organized
  • If your code is massive, include a download link
Share and this thread can be epic ... leech and nobody will be inclined to give handouts. I'll be back after getting some work done to share some of mine.

No OOP/function arguments please!
 


cliqz said:
Can we link to our own blog posts?
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No. Post the code or if it's lot, post a direct download link (zipped, of course). I don't care too much about you dropping a link, just post the resource here not elsewhere.

Perhaps I should give a real quick example.

This function takes the state abbreviation (CA) and changes it to it's proper name (California) ... and vice versa.

PHP: 
function StateAbbreviate($state) {
    $state = trim($state);

        if (((strlen($state) == 2) OR ($state == "D.C.") OR ($state == "d.c."))) {
            $state = str_replace('.','',strtoupper($state));
        } else {
            $state = ucwords(strtolower($state));
        }

  $state_array = array("AL"=>"Alabama","AK"=>"Alaska","AZ"=>"Arizona","AR"=>"Arkansas","CA"=>"California","CO"=>"Colorado","CT"=>"Connecticut","DE"=>"Delaware","DC"=>"District Of Columbia","FL"=>"Florida","GA"=>"Georgia","HI"=>"Hawaii","ID"=>"Idaho","IL"=>"Illinois","IN"=>"Indiana","IA"=>"Iowa","KS"=>"Kansas","KY"=>"Kentucky","LA"=>"Louisiana","ME"=>"Maine","MD"=>"Maryland","MA"=>"Massachusetts","MI"=>"Michigan","MN"=>"Minnesota","MS"=>"Mississippi","MO"=>"Missouri","MT"=>"Montana","NE"=>"Nebraska","NV"=>"Nevada","NH"=>"New Hampshire","NM"=>"New Mexico","NJ"=>"New Jersey","NY"=>"New York","NC"=>"North Carolina","ND"=>"North Dakota","OH"=>"Ohio","OK"=>"Oklahoma","OR"=>"Oregon","PA"=>"Pennsylvania","RI"=>"Rhode Island","SC"=>"South Carolina","SD"=>"South Dakota","TN"=>"Tennessee","TX"=>"Texas","UT"=>"Utah","VT"=>"Vermont","VA"=>"Virginia","WA"=>"Washington","WV"=>"West Virginia","WI"=>"Wisconsin","WY"=>"Wyoming");

  if (strlen($state) == 2) {
      foreach ($state_array as $key => $value) {
           if ($state == $key) {
              $state_abbr = $value;
          }
      }
  } else {
      foreach ($state_array as $key => $value) {
          if ($state == $value) {
              $state_abbr = $key;
          }
      }
  }

  if (!$state_abbr) {
      $state_abbr = "No match found";
  }
    return $state_abbr;
}

echo StateAbbreviate('CA') ; // outputs California
echo StateAbbreviate('California') ; // outputs CA
I've had this function for a while and don't remember if I actually wrote it ... likely I found it laying around the web. Yes, it's kind of worthless ... more exciting stuff to come.
 
I'm starting to suck less at coding, so I'll contribute a few functions I wrote recently to check out the competition. They're incredibly simple, but you might find them useful.

Get Alexa Rank:
PHP: 
function alexaRank($url){
$request_url = "http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&dat=snbamz&url=".$url;
$xml = simplexml_load_file($request_url) or die("feed not loading");
return $xml->SD->POPULARITY['TEXT'];
}

Get Number of Alexa Backlinks
PHP: 
function alexaBack($url){
$request_url = "http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&dat=snbamz&url=".$url;
$xml = simplexml_load_file($request_url) or die("feed not loading");
return $xml->SD->LINKSIN['NUM'];
}
 
OK I can't edit the post anymore but the simple cliff notes are as follows.

EXPLANATION: Wordpress does not natively support PHP sessions in posts and templates so it's hard to pass keywords and IDs from page to page. This little trick lets you grab the keyword they came in on and display it on ANY page on your wordpress install no matter how many different pages they visit. You can then send the subID or keyword to your tracking script when they leave as well.

1) Paste this in your wp_config.php file:
Code: 
session_start();
if(isset($_SESSION['kw']))
$_SESSION['kw'] = $_SESSION['kw'];
else
$_SESSION['kw'] = $_GET['kw'];
2) Send users to your wordpress lander with the keyword or ID in the URL like
Code: 
http://mysite09.com/?kw=some_keyword_or_id
3) Install the exec-php plugin for wordpress.

4) Echo the keywords in your posts, pages or anywhere you want on wordpress using code like this:

Code: 
if ($_SESSION['myvariable']) {
 echo “Welcome, you found this site while searching for $_SESSION['myvariable']“;
}
So even if the user clicks around your site and THEN clicks an aff link you can still record and pass the keyword or keyword ID they used to get to your site because it's stored in a session (not a cookie).

So to ensure you send the keyword or ID with the user to the aff link add something like this at the end
Code: 
?myId=<? php echo “$_SESSION['kw']“;?>
 
God I hate to be whiny bitch but isn't there way better forums for IM coding than this? I mean there's places like Syndk8 where you can virtually get all the knowledge you need to do this yourself.

But wait, I'll contribute at least something to this thread. Go to http://jacksleight.com/code and get JS_Extractor. The best fixed format scraper class I have found so far.
 
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Here is a little WP plugin I wrote after seeing something similar on BlueHatSEO - Its a begger plugin, so when the referer comes from digg or some other site that matches one of the sites in the plugin, it will show a message, and optionally, if you have the ShareThis plugin installed, it will put that in there was well. This is PHP5 only...

Source:
http://wfmnetwork.com/code/wpbegger.phps

ShareThis Plugin: (You need a ShareThis account - Its free)
WordPress › ShareThis WordPress Plugins

Example: (This is from Digg)
5 Worst Rated Jobs in America

If anyone likes the plugin and wants, I will change it from using an internal array of sites to a TXT file
 
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micfire said:
God I hate to be whiny bitch but isn't there way better forums for IM coding than this? I mean there's places like Syndk8 where you can virtually get all the knowledge you need to do this yourself.
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One of the reasons I come here every day is because this place is so full of diverse, yet relevant information exactly like this.

Mainly for the boobs though
 
omgyams said:
One of the reasons I come here every day is because this place is so full of diverse, yet relevant information exactly like this.

Mainly for the boobs though
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Splog Ping Crawl (modification of Eli's PingCrawl):
http://contempt.me/code/SplogPingCrawl.phps

Edit 2 - VarPage.php (Credit to Author: Maia Tech )

I use this class for making quick templating sites with dynamic content. Just use like.. <!--content--> in the code, and then $template->content = "ohhai"; Got it at the 9 to 5, can't go wrong eh?

Code: 
<?php
class VarPage {

   var $templatefile = "./template.html";
   var $varnamelist = "title,content";
   var $title = "Page Title Here";
   var $content = "<p>Page Content Here</p>";

   function VarPage(){
   }

   function display_page() {
      $vararray = explode(",",trim($this->varnamelist));
      $templatearray = file($this->templatefile);
      $template = join("",$templatearray);
      foreach ($vararray as $varname) {
         $template = str_replace("<!--$varname-->",$this->$varname,$template);
      }
      print $template;
   }
}
?>
In Use (like index.php):
Code: 
include_once("VarPage.class.php");

$page = new VarPage();
$page->varnamelist = "content,title,sidebar";
$page->templatefile = "./template.html";

$page->title = "ohhai2u";
$page->content = "I put content in your content so 
                  you can display while you display";

$page->display_page();
 
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This is not mine ... it comes from the book webbots, spiders and screen scrapers by Micheal schrenk... its a very handy bit of kit when it comes to scraping..

I highly recommend the book too ;)

Enjoy!!
 

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ozonew4m said:
This is not mine ... it comes from the book webbots, spiders and screen scrapers by Micheal schrenk... its a very handy bit of kit when it comes to scraping..

I highly recommend the book too ;)

Enjoy!!
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hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/182076915/Webbots.Spiders.and.Screen.Scrapers.rar
 
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Ok, so I thought the functions found at http://www.wickedfire.com/sell-buy-trade/56203-google-suggest-scraper-free-php-script.html were great, but I could come up with a couple quick improvements. I added a link to the Google results, as well as the number of results the query returns. So now you can quickly identify the low competition keywords.

Usage is pretty straight forward. Just go to yourscript.php?yourquery

PHP: 
<?php
function text_between($start,$end,$string) {
  if ($start != '') {$temp = explode($start,$string,2);} else {$temp = array('',$string);}
  $temp = explode($end,$temp[1],2);
  return $temp[0];
}
function gsscrape($keyword) {
  $keyword=str_replace(" ","+",$keyword);
  global $kw;
  $data=file_get_contents('http://clients1.google.com/complete/search?hl=en&q='.$keyword);
  $data=explode('[',$data,3);
  $data=explode('],[',$data[2]);
  foreach($data as $temp) {
  $kw[]= text_between('"','"',$temp);
  }
}
#simple to use, just use yourscriptname.php?keywords
if ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']!='') {
  gsscrape($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
  foreach ($kw as $keyword) {
  gsscrape($keyword);
  }
}

#all results are in array $kw...
foreach($kw as $keyword) {
    $url = 'http://www.google.com/search?q='.urlencode($keyword);
    
    $userAgent = 'Firefox (WindowsXP) - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6';
    
    // make the cURL request to $target_url
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);

    $html= curl_exec($ch);
    if (!$html) {
        echo "<br />cURL error number:" .curl_errno($ch);
        echo "<br />cURL error:" . curl_error($ch);
        exit;
    }
    
    $abc = str_replace('of about <b>', '', strstr($html, 'of about <b>'));
    
    echo '<a href="'.$url.'">'.$keyword.'</a> - '.substr($abc, 0, strpos($abc, '</b>')).' Results<br />';
}
?>

For example, Angelina Jolie gives:

angelina jolie pregnant - 3,420,000 Results
angelina jolie tattoos - 582,000 Results
angelina jolie twins - 3,250,000 Results
angelina jolie movies - 27,100,000 Results
angelina jolie pictures - 14,500,000 Results
angelina jolie breastfeeding - 527,000 Results
angelina jolie and brad pitt - 9,020,000 Results
angelina jolie quotes - 2,270,000 Results
angelina jolie w magazine - 3,210,000 Results
angelina jolie biography - 302,000 Results
angelina jolie pregnant again - 282,000 Results
angelina jolie pregnant november 2008 - 658,000 Results
angelina jolie pregnant with 7th child - 105,000 Results
angelina jolie pregnant december 2008 - 702,000 Results
angelina jolie pregnant with twins again - 391,000 Results
... and so on...
 
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