Jeremy has published perl code to autoclose comments for posts in Moveable Type that have grown old to prevent SPAM in those comments. Here is the link to the hack. Thank him of you use his code! There is another trackback entry in that blog which talks about a small little MT application that will close the entry to comments (and pings if you so desire) for any entries older than a given number of days Here is a link to that application.

I needed to have a small and fast bulletin board which did not need a MySql database and I ended up putting together the IdeaBox. This is written in PHP, is extremely simple and very configurable. Just download the source zip file, chmod 777 post.xml and you are ready to go. The php in index.php can be copied and pasted into any html or php page to add this board to that page. You can see the results at the bottom of my Regular Expressions Tutorial Some of the features include: Very very simple interface Board divided into easily navigable pages Very simple source, easy to modify Easily added to ANY php enabled page Does not require a database Relatively FAST

Jaykul has a NewsFeed Parser Script that I beleive is WayKul. OK, that was a bad cliche. This script is very easy to configure and has some nice features (including open source). It saved me the headache of writing my own! Some of the features include: RDF spec”>RDF “feeds” are, they are basically ways for a site to make it easy for other people (like you and me) to “syndicate” their content, getting headlines and possibly short excerpts of their articles. There are thousands of sites which produce these news pages, including my own, Lockergnome, GeoShell.com, ShellScape, SlashDot and more general sites like Internet News, and more! The output is simple divs with links and class names. All you have to do to use it is “include it” in your php script and then call the function. Download the script here Check out the RSS feed from Mindful Musings on […]

Visitor Trac is my incarnation of the menu depth expression from UseIt, Jakob Neilson’s website This script dynamically keeps track of the last 5-6 pages that a visitor clicks through on your site. It keeps this information for 7 days. The information is stored in individual text files (I realize this makes it slower, but it also makes installation very easy) and the text files are time-managed. It degerates the link table once there is more thn 5 click throughs and the files are checked for date and time difference every time they are accessed. There are a few benefits of this script that should be mentioned here. I have come upon many bulletin boards where I keep track of certain topics and I have to click through a bunch of links before I can get to what I was viewing the last time I was there. This script would […]