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November 20, 2005

Improve your external links with Favicons

Web Design - Jean-Jacques Guegan

Put some style into your links.

By including this PHP script on your site, you can call the FaviconLink function to make favicons appear in your links to other websites. This brings more life to your external links and also tells your visitor that the link will open in a new window - most people now expect that this is what an icon on a link means.
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November 18, 2005

How to protect and hide your mail address?

Web Design - Jean-Jacques Guegan

Yet another Email Link Protector?

Yes, but I think this one is better:
all existing Javascript e-mail link protectors obfuscate your data with more or less complexity. In my opinion, all these scripts have a major flaw: they can all be recognized as e-mail link protectors by the best spam bots.
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How to get a variable name as a string in PHP

PHP - Jean-Jacques Guegan

On rare occasions, you may need to retrieve a variable name as a string.

This handy little function retreives the name of the variable:

 
<?php
      $my_var = 1;
      echo var_name ($my_var);
?>
 

will give 'my_var'.

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November 16, 2005

Why Mach13 ?

General - Jean-Jacques Guegan

I was trying to find a domain name for my IT related blog, with a strong consonnance of HighTech, power, speed and lightweight.

Something a bit scarry would fit me too...
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