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With the Tribulant Google pagerank script, you can now instantly check your site's Google pagerank and output the results with either and image or text. There are two versions...one for an image and one for text.

To download and start using the Google pagerank script right now, click the link below :

Tribulant Google Pagerank Script v1.0

If you have any comments, suggestions or appraisals, please feel free to post them here.
All suggestions will be greatly appreciated, since it will allow me to improve the script

My new website design :



http://www.tribulant.com

Feel free to test out the site, scripts and other resources and post your comments here.
All comments will be greatly appreciated, since the site is still under fast development.

I've always had the bad habit of revamping my sites way too often.
I used to have a site at http://www.tribulant.com but there is nothing there now except for a "Coming Soon..." page.
I recently decided that I needed to get the site up and running again, so I've been spending some time on doing just that.

Screenshot :


This is what I have now.
It's not up yet, since I'm still working on the backend programming.

Let me know what you think of the design so far.

Just a quick snippet which will help you to create a random number in a specific range, using PHP. PHP has a built in rand(); fuction which allows you to do this with ease. See the example below :

PHP Random Function :

rand([int_min], [int_max]);

Example :

rand(1, 999);

The code shown above will create a random number between 1 (which is the minimum) and 999 (which is the maximum).

You can make the [min] and [max] values of this function dynamic, simply by replacing the digits with your variables. You can also assign this function to a variable itself and ouput the results if needed. See the simple example below :

$min = 1;
$max = 99;

$random_number = rand($min, $max);

echo "$random_number";

I wouldn't say that this function is really used that often, but it definitely comes in handy from time to time. Enjoy!

A large number of web programmers are using PHP as a primary programming language to create online applications, content management systems, or other small scripts. PHP is a great language and platform to work with, and definitely delivers the cherry on top of the cake. I've been programming in this language for a short while, and find the experience extremely pleasant.

Just as any other programming language, you need to follow general security measures and techniques to ensure that your content is safe and secure from malicious or unintended actions. I'm going to provide a simple sample which will make you realize how easy it sometimes is for a user to access content which you are trying to secure.

Let's say that you are requesting a user to login with a username and password, in order for the user to see/access certain content. You might have something like the below :

<?php

if ($_POST['username'] == "username" && $_POST['password'] == "password")
{
$access = 1;
};

secret();

function secret()
{
if ($access == 1)
{
SHOW SECRET CONTENT
}
else
{
DONT SHOW SECRET CONTENT
};
};

?>

So basically what this code does is it gets a posted username and password from a form on another page. It then checks whether the username and password is what you want it to be. If the username and password is what you want it to be, then the variable named $access will be equal to 1. But...

Any user can access the secret content by manually posting a value as 1 when register_globals are turned on.

This is just a basic sample, and I do realize that there are many ways to work around this, but below is the code which I would use to make this code more secure :

<?php

$access = 0;

if ($_POST['username'] == "username" && $_POST['password'] == "password")
{
$access = 1;
};

secret();

function secret()
{
if ($access == 1)
{
SHOW SECRET CONTENT
}
else
{
DONT SHOW SECRET CONTENT
};
};

?>

Note how I set the variable to 0 before executing the IF statement.

Just something to chew on.