How to create a 5 star rating system like on P2L

A star rating system is a valuable asset to any website: it adds interactivity to a site, and keeps the users connected with the your site. In this tutorial, you will learn how to make one using php. This 5 star rating system will include: -- a form containing just a dropdown box of all the different ratings and a submit button -- sending the rating to the database, and calulating averages, totals etc using php displaying the rating in numbers and in graphics Please bear in mind that I

Create a unique hits counter with PHP and MYSQL

Create a unique hits counter by LemonadeX In this tutorial we will be learning how to grab and save unique viewer IP addresses into a MySQL table. First of all you will need to connect to your MySQL server which will hold the user data.

TechTuts Membership tutorial part 2! Display users online

This is an addition to This tutorial. It will teach you how to add a 'Members Online' feature to your site.

Simple Visits Counter without MySQL

In this tutorial we'll learn how to code a simple and basic visits counter. This counter doesn't need any MySQL database, it runs using a simple txt file to be placed in it's same folder on the server. First of all we have to create a txt file, our is named visits.txt. Open it and type "0" (only zero, without any quotation marks) in it, save and close the file. Move the file on your server, in the same folder where the script will be placed. Now create a new PHP file and save it as simplecoun

PHP/MySQL Hit Counter - Part 1

fCreating a PHP Hit Counter with MySQL. This tutorial is a fairly straightforward introduction to using MySQL with PHP. We're going to build you a hit counter for your site. We will expand on this script in future tutorials, but for now, we're going to keep things extremely simple, with a few variables, some if statements, perhaps a loop or two, and a few of PHP's MySQL functions. If you've never used, or even heard of, MySQL before then you will need to check with your web hosting company

Create a "What You're Playing" Sig - Shows current winamp song

This tutorial will describe how to get an image to display your currently playing song in winamp in a simple JPEG. To start, make sure you have, PHP enabled server The ability to CHMODD Winamp version 2.0 or 5.0.

Create a basic user logging script - Learn how to log your and display referers

This tutorial will record what sites have sent visitors to your site.

Making a Basic Users Online Script - Uses MySQL and only a few lines of code

Currently, I don't know much about flatfile so I can't tell you about how to do this on flatfile, but if you happen to have a database, then we can do something about that.

Complete Stats Counter - Learn how to make a stats counter with MySQL

This tutorial teaches you how to make a mysql hit counter that does the following: -Hits -Hits Today -Unique Hits -Unique Hits Today.

Track Sites That Link to Your Pages - Master the use of the referrer function

The concept behind this is very simple. Step 1: Create a simple database. Step 2: Create a simple PHP script that checks the referer field set by your browser (what site you clicked a link on to get here) Step 3: Insert new sites into the database, while updating the count of existing ones. This will be super easy even if starting from scratch, but seeing as how I'm nice, I've provided virtually all the code.

Creating a GD Signature - Display a user's IP in your signature image

in this tutorial i will teach you how to creat a gd signature which shows the users IP. If you would like to learn about GD more extensivelly go to http://www.php.net/gd

Users Online - A detailed tutorial on tracking users online with a database

this tutorial will teach you how to create a script that will allow you to keep track of how many visitors are currently viewing your site. if you want to see a working example.

Check your affiliates uptime status before you display them

oK, u know when sometimes your affiliates sites goes down or if you are listing tutorials you link to sites that are not loading well here is a fix

Visitor IPs - How to obtain them and ban them from your site

There are many reasons for why you would want to obtain and make use of the IP address of a visitor. Most often it is used to simply display it on site and have vistor locking doors and windows, feeling paranoid. But there are many other uses for the IP address ... One thing that has to be pointed out is remember that an IP is not a sure fire way of uniquely identifying someone. Remember that if used for security reasons ( such as banning ), you'll often find those who do want to carry out malic

PHP Scripts - A pack of scripts including users online, get referer and tons mor

ok, heres what i am going to do... since i luv php, and don't know how to use it lol.. i will post php scripts in here for you and what you need.. e.g. the specifications for it ... yeh, well here goes o.. there will also be some html scripts and such too -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //Navigation +Script-Users Online +Script-Get Refer +Script-Page Generation Time +Script-Download Protector (Leech protecting) +Script-Get users ip +*

Building an Advanced Users Online Script - Huge script intended for advanced cod

this script is BASED on the script that i use for this site so please note that it is not the same please note that i dont explain alot in this tutorial so its only meant for the more advanced users :) For this tutorial you will need to be able to use mysql, if you do not yet know how to use and setup mysq

Makin A Basic User Logging Script - Store visitor information to a txt file

In this simple tutorial I will teach you how to log some information about the visitors to your site. The logged information includes; Date and time, IP, Host, Browser, The URL wheres the information was logged from and the Referer. It stores in a txt file for easy viewing.

Detecting Proxies - Easily detect most kinds of proxies and a user's REAL IP

Most proxy servers that are free to the public also send along certain things in their HTTP headers. They send (typically) 3 extra things that can be used to.

A simple text hit counter - Learn the basics of making a text based hit counter

To start off, we'll be using a mysql database for this. This can also be done with plain old text files too, but if you're using PHP and your webhost doesn't provide you with a mysql database, chances are your webhost is lame, and you don't get many visitors to your site to begin with, therefore nullifying any need of a hit counter. Hopefully that doesn't apply to many people but I've been there so I can speak from experience. First create a table in your database called "counter" and give

Graphical Hit Counter - Creating a Graphical Hit Counter with PHP

Creating a graphical hit counter is a lot easier than you might think. Creating a hit counter is easy enough, and turning it into a graphical hit counter is 1 added (and quite simple) step. For those who don't know what a graphical hit counter is, it displays the amount of times your page has been loaded not with plain text, but with images you (or someone else) has created to represent those numbers.