However, it misses a search function, as well as a import/export option. Of course it would have been awesome for it to be able to store the snippets on the web so that they would be accessible for you by using an account or such. Unfortunately it lacks the HTML syntax coloring. Of course there is a lot of work on it still but thankfully it is out there for us to enjoy so let’s be patient with the developers.

Oh, and by the way, to make up for that import/export thing you could do it manually by following the path to the SQLite database file:

“C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\com.snippely.xxx\Local Store\application.db”. And there you have it; you can now be assured that your precious snippets won’t be lost if you decide to work on another computer or any other scenario.

Here are some screenshots to help you make an impression:

Download: http://code.google.com/p/snippely/downloads/list

The WordPress Codex directory is way cool and it is maybe one of the best wordpress resources out there. Here’s the link that interests us in particular: Creating an Error 404 Page. You just need to create a 404.php file in your theme directory (in case you don’t already have one). Put the following code in it and customize aiding yourself with the comments:

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<?php get_header(); ?>
   <div id="post-entry">
     <h1>Whoops !</h1>
	     <div class="post-content">
	     	<p>You 
				<?php
				#some variables for the script to use
				#if you have some reason to change these, do.  but wordpress can handle it
				$adminemail = get_bloginfo('admin_email'); #the administrator email address, according to wordpress
				$website = get_bloginfo('url'); #gets your blog's url from wordpress
				$websitename = get_bloginfo('name'); #sets the blog's name, according to wordpress
				
				  if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) {
				    #politely blames the user for all the problems they caused
				        echo "tried going to "; #starts assembling an output paragraph
					$casemessage = "All is not lost!";
				  } elseif (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) {
				    #this will help the user find what they want, and email me of a bad link
					echo "clicked a link to"; #now the message says You clicked a link to...
				        #setup a message to be sent to me
					$failuremess = "A user tried to go to $website"
				        .$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']." and received a 404 (page not found) error. ";
					$failuremess .= "It wasn't their fault, so try fixing it.  
				        They came from ".$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
					mail($adminemail, "Bad Link To ".$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],
				        $failuremess, "From: $websitename <noreply@$website>"); #email you about problem
					$casemessage = "An administrator has been emailed 
				        about this problem, too.";#set a friendly message
				  }
				  echo " ".$website.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?> 
				and it doesn't exist. <?php echo $casemessage; ?>  You can click back 
				and try again or try using the search box in the sidebar.
			</p>
	     </div>
	</div>
 
 
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Easy enough ? I think it is an awesome method. At least for testing if not for permanent use. Hope this helps. Oh, and by the way, if you have a large blog be ready to be bombarded with emails generated from this 404 page.

• Test page without compression
• Test page with compression

As you can see (you might want to check your Net Firebug stats) the page on which PHP Speeedy is activated is displayed a lot more faster ! The same thing applies for a WordPress installation. However if you encounter different problems be sure to refer to the author’s page and have a quick look-up on what’s to be done if something goes wrong. Leon (the author) seems to be a nice guy and quickly replies to the ones who ask for help or guidance. Keep up the good work Leon !

I recommend setting up a filter and excluding the external javascripts (such as ads, etc) because of the risk that they won’t show and/or behave normally. A part of feel free to minify your internal css and js files and see how thing work out.

Download PHP Speedy for Wordpress or download PHP Speedy standalone version

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<?php
$images = array(1=>1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
for ($i= 0; $i < 3; $i++) {
$nr[$i] = array_rand($images,1);
unset($images[$nr[$i]]);
?>
<img src="http://images_path/imagename_<?php echo $nr[$i] ?>.png" width='image_width' height='image_height' alt='image_alt_text' />
<?php
}
?>

The above code displays 3 (out of 5) non-duplicate, randomly selected pictures. Unfortunately a disadvantage of this script is that it can only display images of a given extension; in the above case png. Also the images must be named like in the following example: imagename_1, imagename_2, imagename_3 and so on. And of course, you don’t have the possibility of adding some links to your images.

The next code is pretty much like the above one but this one let’s you specify some links to your images. “link1″ is associated to imagename_1.png, “link2″ to imagename_2.png, etc.

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<?php
$images = array(1=>"link1", "link2", "link3", "link4", "link5");
for ($i= 0; $i < 3; $i++)
{
$nr[$i] = array_rand($images,1);
$link[$i] = $images[$nr[$i]];
unset($images[$nr[$i]]);
?>
<a href="<?php echo $link[$i]; ?>">
<img src="http://images_path/imagename_<?php echo $nr[$i]; ?>.png" width='image_width' height='image_height' alt='image_alt_text' />
</a>
<?php
}
?>

The following script however is more practical. It allows you to display images with different extensions (png, gif, jpg, bmp, etc.) You will need one file to define your images names and their corresponding links.
For example let’s say we have 7 images, each image having its link.

imagename_1.gif:http://linkforimage1.com/
imagename_2.bmp:http://linkforimage2.com/
imagename_3.png:http://linkforimage3.com/
imagename_4.jpg:http://linkforimage4.com/
imagename_5.jpg:http://linkforimage5.com/

Name the file somethink like 19832asdfasfd.qu132u1; purely random.
Here comes the actual script.

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<?php
$file = '19832asdfasfd.qu132u1';
$fp = fopen($file, 'r+');
$counter = fread($fp, filesize($file));
$images = explode("\n", $counter);
 
function get_name($object) {
	$x = explode(":",$object);
	$name = $x['0'];
	return $name;
}
function get_url($object) {
	$x = explode(":",$object);
	$total = count($x)-1;
	$url = $x['1'];
	for($i=2;$i<=$total;$i++)
		$url .= ':'.$x[$i];
	return $url;
}
function show_banner($images, $nr)
	{
			$img = get_name($images[$nr]);
			$url = get_url($images[$nr]);
			echo '<a href="'.$url.'" target="_blank" ><img src="linktoimagesdir'.$img.'" border="0"/></a><br/>';
			unset($images[$nr]);
	}
$i=1;
while($i<4) {
	$bn[$i] = array_rand($images);
	show_banner($images,$bn[$i]);
	unset($images[$bn[$i]]);
	$i++;
}
?>

Save this to index.php and place the file with the script in a directory located on your server. To show the rotating images on a certain page you need to call index.php

<?php
include (' pathtofile / index.php ');
?>

You can also call the file with the require_once function or an HTML iFrame.
If you need any assistance feel free to leave me a comment and i will get back to you.

Of course you can customize it’s output by modifying the $query variable. If you are a newbie and need a quick php Where clause reference as you want to get a hang of the operators, check this one out: PHP MySQL Where Clause

Finally here’s the script:

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 <?php
    // How Many Topics you want to display?
    $topicnumber = 5;
    // Scrolling towards up or down?
    $scroll = "up";
    // Change this to your phpBB path
    $urlPath = "/forum";
 
    // Database Configuration (Where your phpBB config.php file is located)
    include 'forum/config.php';
 
    $table_topics = $table_prefix. "topics";
    $table_forums = $table_prefix. "forums";
    $table_posts = $table_prefix. "posts";
    $table_users = $table_prefix. "users";
    $link = mysql_connect("$dbhost", "$dbuser", "$dbpasswd") or die("Could not connect");
    mysql_select_db("$dbname") or die("Could not select database");
 
    $query = "SELECT t.topic_id, t.topic_title, t.topic_last_post_id, t.forum_id, p.post_id, p.poster_id, p.post_time, u.user_id, u.username
    FROM $table_topics t, $table_forums f, $table_posts p, $table_users u
    WHERE t.topic_id = p.topic_id AND
    f.forum_id = t.forum_id AND
    t.forum_id != 4 AND
    t.topic_status <> 2 AND
    p.post_id = t.topic_last_post_id AND
    p.poster_id = u.user_id
    ORDER BY p.post_id DESC LIMIT $topicnumber";
    $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Query failed");									
 
    print "<marquee id=\"recent_topics\" behavior=\"scroll\" direction=\"$scroll\" height=\"170\" scrolldelay=\"100\" scrollamount=\"2\" onMouseOver=\"document.all.recent_topics.stop()\" onMouseOut=\"document.all.recent_topics.start()\">
    <table cellpadding='3' cellSpacing='2' width='350'>";
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
 
    echo  "<tr valign='top'><td><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font color=\"#FFCC00\"><b><a href=\"$urlPath/viewtopic.php?f=$row[forum_id]&t=$row[topic_id]&p=$row[post_id]#p$row[post_id]\" TARGET=\"_blank\">" .
    $row["topic_title"] .
    "</a></td></font></b><td><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font color=\"#C0C0C0\"> by: <a href=\"$urlPath/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$row[user_id]\" TARGET=\"_blank\">" .
    $row["username"] .
    "</td><td><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><font color=\"#C0C0C0\">" .
    date('F j, Y, g:i a', $row["post_time"]) .
    "</td></tr></font>";
    }
    print "</table></marquee>";
    mysql_free_result($result);
    mysql_close($link);
    ?>

Feel free to use it as you want. If you have any questions just drop a comment.

If you want to integrate ads into your posts here’s what you need to do. First of all let’s begin with defining the CSS class we’ll be using.
The following code is for right-orientated ads (like the ones i use on my blog).

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.ad-right {
display:block;
float:right;
margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px;
}

The next code is for left-orientated ads.

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.ad-left {
display:block;
float:left;
margin: 5px 10px 0px 0px;
}

As you can see, the differences between the two classes are not so big. Feel free to play with them until you get the desired effect or if you don’t have any CSS knowledge at all you can use them as given. After you decide which class you will use, copy the code into your style.css. Thats it for the CSS part.

Let’s move along and edit our theme files. Whether you want to show your ads on the index page or the page containing just the article you will need to look for the following code:

<?php the_content(...

By default any wordpress theme will have that code in it’s template file and it doesn’t matter what’s after it because many themes use custom and different code. After you located the code be sure to add the following lines exactly before it:

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<div class="ad-right">
////Replace me with your ad code////
</div>

Replace the line that says so with your ad code. Notice the class that is used. You might want to change that with ad-left as i told you before.
Ok, so now you have in-content ads.

Now lets move forward and add some ads between your posts on the index page.
In your index page template find the following code:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Again bare in mind that you may not find the exact code. If you don’t have that exact code just make sure you find the have_posts() function. Add the following code exactly before it:

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<?php
$post = 1;
$ad1 = 1;
$ad2 = 3;
$ad3 = 5;
?>

The above code uses the $ad1, $ad2, $ad3 variables to define after which posts the ads will be shown. The variable $post stores the post number and will be incremented later.
Now before the closing of the div that marks the ending of the post content (something like this < / div > < ! -- End of Post -- >) add the following lines:

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<?php if ($post == $ad1 || $post == $ad2 || $post == $ad3) { ?>
<p><center>
////Replace me with your ad code////
</center></p>
<?php }
$post++; ?>

As you can see at the end of the code we incremented the post variable.

If you want to know how to display ads from multiple advertising companies using the same code just drop me a comment and i will explain how to achieve that.

I’ve tested this method with ads from AdSense, BidVertiser, WidgetBucks, BlgAds, Chitika and AdBrite. The reason i’m not writing a tutorial for each of them is because all you need to do is to paste your ad code in the upper mentioned spot.