Barattalo
Collection of WordPress plugins, code snippets, tools and posts for developers and happy makers
W3tc plugin feed problem
When your WordPress site has a great number of requests it could happen that your server can’t handle all the…
13 mysql tips that you don’t know
Here is a list of thirteen tips that can be usefull for your queries. If you know more tips send…
How many times a web link has been shared on Twitter
Twitter share button and Facebook share button are the most used buttons to share links on Internet. You can read…
Updated version of the the Facebook Connect Tutorial
I’ve written un updated version of the Facebook Connect Tutorial, you can find it in the top menu of Barattalo.it.…
How to read facebook likes count from PHP
When you add facebook like button to your site, probably, you also want to save the number of likes of…
Mini log functions for PHP
When you have to log something with php you can use fopen to create a file and then use fwrite…
Unobtrusive javascript to add an overlay banner
If you have to add an overlay to a site, here is a fast way to do it with an…
PHP code to check if remote mp3 exists
Hi, I’ve a big table with thousands of mp3 links. Sice these links come from an old database, many of…
New Facebook Invite all friends hack
So, you want to invote all your friends but the old hack doesn’t work anymore? With the last facebook friends…
How to use Instagr.am photos on your site
UPDATE: 2013-12-04 I’ve made a method in the Mini Bots PHP Class that lets you retrieve images from instagram without…
get MySpace events with a PHP function
Here is a function to read the concerts for a myspace band page. This code retrieves the “shows page” for…
PHP Geocoding function, from address to coordinates lat long
This is a small function included in the Minibots Class that converts an address to a couple of coordinates Latitude,…
PHP find previous monday from a date
This small function returns the date (with the format you want) of the previous monday from a given date. If…
Get URL parameter in javascript
Sometimes in javascript you have the variable that you need to use in the url, as a parameter passed in…
Get file name in javascript
How to get the file name of the page? When you need to read the file name of the current…
Php Function to resize video from YouTube and Vimeo
When you make a web application that let the user insert video embeds coming from YouTube or from Vimeo, or…
How to integrate phpbb forum login
I have had to install phpbb forum on a website that already had a user table and I want to…
How to change twitter status with php and curl without oAuth
Twitter api authentication Since the 31 of august 2010, twitter made its API more secure, stopping basic authentication calls. So,…
PHP bot to get wikipedia definitions
Wikipedia, the collaborative and multilingual encyclopedia project, has a lot of usefull terms defined in its database, you can find…
Send push notification to iPhone with PHP and pushme.to
UPDATE: 2013/11/18 This code no longer works, but you can check a similar function here: Sending push notifications with php…
PHP to post on a Facebook page
Hi, I’ve modified the Mini Bot Class, I’ve fixed the Facebook status update and I’ve implemented the function to post…
Parsing Flickr Feed with PHP tutorial
I’ve spent about 30 minutes to find a javascript embed to print out a custom thumbs list of flickr photos,…
10 htaccess usefull tips
The “.htaccess” is a configuration file that works at directory level on the web servers (on Apache, not on Microsoft…
Correct headers to download a CSV from PHP
With these headers you can force a download from php, for example, to let the user download a csv frmatted…
Always remove slashes from GET and POST
This is a small piece of code that I use since many years. It removes all slashes from $_GET and…
Mini Bot Class Updated
Now there are 17 bots included in this class! Well I’ve updated the mini bots class with some new things:…
PHP google images mini bot
UPDATE 2013/12/12: Now, in the Mini Bot Class there is a version of this function that is still working. You…
PHP parse url, mailto, and also twitter’s usernames and arguments
This small function receive a text as input and returns an html text with links if the source text contains…
How to write a text description into html input type password
Sometime designers put form labels and instrucions into html inputs. One of the common uses is for login boxes when…
PHP curl bot to update Facebook status
I’ve found this great mini bot from Alste blog, and I’ve decided to add it to the mini bot class.…