PHP Developer

One of the most commonly asked questions by online entrepreneurs in starting an ambitious website project: “Which is better, starting a site using PHP framework or using CMS directly?”. The best answer to this question depends entirely on the following: a.) Your technical skills b.) Your budget c.) How your website will be used d.) The complexity of your website e.) The technical background of the people working behind you Let’s examine one by one. TECHNICAL SKILLS: If you are going to start a w …

Cpanel raw access log provides a complete detail of all request made to your Apache server. This request includes: a.) Normal visitors coming from search engines or to other referring websites. b.) Search engine bots. c.) Malware bots or hacking bots. It is important to pay attention to your raw access log because it provides a clue about how your visitors are actually doing in your website. Are most of them actually reading your content? Or just busy hacking your website? This tutorial is appli …

Is there a time when you are thinking how to do a server load testing to evaluate your PHP web application performance? This is where you will be using the Apachebench or “ab” testing tool. This is a very useful open source tool not only to PHP developers but to the entire users of the Apache server. This tool is used to evaluate the execution times of your PHP web application or the response time of your website under “stressing” conditions. This condition means how your PHP web application wil …

Below is the Excel workbook which you can use to estimate the visitors from Google for your targeted keywords. For details, please refer to the tutorial I wrote in SEO Chat entitled: Google Ranking Positions and %CTR: Estimating Search Engine Visitors SEO Chat. The details and sample computation is included in that article. Note: If you like to modify the spreadsheet, the password is codexm General procedure: 1.) Download the tool above. 2.) Go to this tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/Key …

Using Keepas and PuTTY you can make your login secure using a command line tool for communicating with an SSH server. If you are a webmaster, you should be using SSH for uploading and downloading files because they are more secure than using FTP method. SSH encrypts communication between your computer and the SSH server in your hosting company. So if Mr. Bad Guy is monitoring your communications, he will be greatly disappointed. PuTTY though is much more challenging than FTP particularly that th …