Today I would like to show you how to properly use MD5 encryption within your pages. I am going to show you the basic use and will elaborate at a later time.

If you were to look at the United States Cyber Command seal you will find an MD5 hash written around the inner seal. It reads:

9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a

MD5 is a one way encryption that is used many times for password verification. Its a great way to store user passwords without having a plain text password easily available in case of malicious use. Since it cannot be decrypted the only way to know that it is in fact what you want is to encrypt the user’s input and match the both hash strings. There are other ways of making this more secure by enacting a salt and encrypting again.

Below is the example of the code above:

$str = md5(”USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.”);
echo $str;

This will output:

9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a

That is the code written on the seal of the US Cyber Command.

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This is something that every PHP Programmer should be very aware of - the creation of links using PHP. To create a link in PHP is very simple. Here are a couple of ways to do this:

echo ‘<a href=”MYWEBSITE.COM”>My Website</a>’;

OR

echo “<a href=’MYWEBSITE.COM’>My Website</a>”;

OR

echo “<a href=\”MYWEBSITE.COM\”>My Website</a>”;

This is fairly basic but there are alot of hits to the website searching for this. So I hope this helps the PHP Programmer looking for this information.

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Search Engine Optimization is important if you want to show high in the search engine results pages. Many webmasters pay big money to have a SEO company optimize their websites. I am the lead programmer for such a company and found JobberBase while searching for a job search website that I could utilize for personal use. I fell in love with it right away, but noticed that it did not have SEO tags that were easily editable by the user/webmaster. So I started adding code and came up with the following tutorial, this tutorial will show you how to add SEO capabilities to your JobberBase website.  I tried to make this as simple as possible, so enjoy:

Backup your database and your files before attempting this install

1. Alter db table:

ALTER TABLE `categories` ADD `title` TEXT NOT NULL AFTER `var_name` ,
ADD `description` TEXT NOT NULL AFTER `title` ,
ADD `keywords` TEXT NOT NULL AFTER `description` ;

2. In “admin/_templates/categories.tpl”:

Find:

<a href=”#” title=”Save” class=”saveCategory”><img src=”{$BASE_URL}img/disk.png” alt=”Save” /> Save</a>

Add After:

<label><span>Title:</span><input type=”text” size=”60″ name=”title[{$category.id}]” value=”{$category.title}” /></label>
<label><span>Description:</span><input type=”text” size=”60″ name=”desc[{$category.id}]” value=”{$category.description}”/></label>
<label><span>Keywords:</span><input type=”text” size=”60″ name=”keys[{$category.id}]” value=”{$category.keywords}” /></label>

3. In “_includes/functions.php”:

Find:

function get_categories()
{
global $db;
$categories = array();
$sql = ‘SELECT id, name, var_name
FROM categories
ORDER BY `category_order` ASC’;
$result = $db->query($sql);
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
{
$categories[] = array(’id’ => $row['id'], ‘name’ => $row['name'], ‘var_name’ => $row['var_name']);
}
return $categories;
}

Change to:

function get_categories()
{
global $db;
$categories = array();
$sql = ‘SELECT *
FROM categories
ORDER BY `category_order` ASC’;
$result = $db->query($sql);
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
{
$categories[] = array(’id’ => $row['id'], ‘name’ => $row['name'], ‘var_name’ => $row['var_name'], ‘title’ => $row['title'], ‘description’ => $row['description'], ‘keywords’ => $row['keywords']);
}
return $categories;
}

4. In “admin/page_categories.php”:

Find:

case ’saveCategory’:
$result = $db -> query(’
UPDATE
`categories`
SET
`var_name` = \” . $_POST['url'] . ‘\’,
`name` = \” . $_POST['name'] . ‘\’
WHERE
`id` = ‘ . intval($_POST['category']) . ‘
‘);

break;

Change to:

case ’saveCategory’:
$result = $db -> query(’
UPDATE
`categories`
SET
`var_name` = \” . $_POST['url'] . ‘\’,
`name` = \” . $_POST['name'] . ‘\’,
`title` = \” . $_POST['title'] . ‘\’,
`description` = \” . $_POST['description'] . ‘\’,
`keywords` = \” . $_POST['keywords'] . ‘\’
WHERE
`id` = ‘ . intval($_POST['category']) . ‘
‘);
break;

Then Find:

$last = $result->fetch_assoc();
$db->query(’
INSERT INTO
`categories`
VALUES (
NULL,
\’enter a name\’,
\’custom url\’,
‘ . (intval($last['category_order']) + 1) . ‘
)
‘);

Change to:

$last = $result->fetch_assoc();
$db->query(’
INSERT INTO
`categories`
VALUES (
NULL,
\’enter a name\’,
\’custom url\’,
\’SEO Title\’,
\’SEO Description\’,
\’SEO Keywords\’,
‘ . (intval($last['category_order']) + 1) . ‘
)
‘);

5. In “admin/js/categories.js”:

Find:

‘img/disk.png” alt=”Save” /> Save</a>’,

Add After:

‘<label><span>Title:</span><input type=”text” size=”60″ name=”title[]” value=”newcategory” /></label>’,
‘<label><span>Description:</span><input type=”text” size=”60″ name=”description[]” value=”newcategory” /></label>’,
‘<label><span>Keywords:</span><input type=”text” size=”60″ name=”keywords[]” value=”newcategory” /></label>’,

KEEP FILE OPEN

6. In the same file, “categories.js”:

Find:

name: $(el).parent().find(’input:first’).val(),

Add after:

title: $(el).parent().find(’input:eq(1)’).val(),
description: $(el).parent().find(’input:eq(2)’).val(),
keywords: $(el).parent().find(’input:eq(3)’).val(),

KEEP FILE OPEN

7. In the same file, “categories.js”

Find:

.find(’input:first’)
.attr(’name’, ‘name[' + id + ']‘)
.end()

Add after:

.find(’input:text.eq(1)’)
.attr(’name’, ‘title[' + id + ']‘)
.end()
.find(’input:text.eq(2)’)
.attr(’name’, ‘description[' + id + ']‘)
.end()
.find(’input:text.eq(3)’)
.attr(’name’, ‘keywords[' + id + ']‘)
.end()

8. In the file, “/page_category.php”

[b]NOTE:[/b] [u]Not[/u] the “/admin/page_category.php”

Find:

$html_title = ‘Are you looking for ‘ . $extra . ‘ ‘ . $id . ‘ jobs?’;
$meta_description = ”;

Replace with:

$smarty->assign(’seo_title’, get_seo_title($id));
$smarty->assign(’seo_desc’, get_seo_desc($id));
$smarty->assign(’seo_keys’, get_seo_keys($id));

9. In the file, “/_includes/functions.php”

Find:

function get_categories()
{
*** Removed to save space ***
}

Add After:

function get_seo_title($id)
{
global $db;
$sql = ‘SELECT *
FROM categories
WHERE var_name = “‘.$id.’”‘;
$result = $db->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
return $row['title'];
}
function get_seo_desc($id)
{
global $db;
$sql = ‘SELECT *
FROM categories
WHERE var_name = “‘.$id.’”‘;
$result = $db->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
return $row['description'];
}
function get_seo_keys($id)
{
global $db;
$sql = ‘SELECT *
FROM categories
WHERE var_name = “‘.$id.’”‘;
$result = $db->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
return $row['keywords'];
}

10. In “/_templates/header.tpl”

Find:

<title>{$html_title}</title>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8″ />
<meta name=”description” content=”{$meta_description}” />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”{$meta_keywords}” />

Replace with:

<title>{$seo.title}</title>
<meta name=”description” content=”{$seo_desc}” />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”{$seo_keys}” />
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8″ />

11. In “/page_home.php”

Find:

$html_title = $translations['homepage']['title'] . SITE_NAME;

Replace with:

$smarty->assign(’seo_title’, “This is the homepage title”);
$smarty->assign(’seo_desc’, “This is the homepage Description”);
$smarty->assign(’seo_keys’, “This is the homepage keyword”);

Change that last set of information to set you homepage SEO values.

If you have any questions I will be more than happy to discuss them here. If there are any errors I apologize ahead of time as this was done late last night. My time is tight but figured this one to be useful to people.

Thank you JobberBase for your hard work and efforts. Great App!!

When a PHP Programmer starts to write a PHP snippet, the basic php syntax always starts with <?php and ends with ?>. You can place this snippet anywhere in the *.php document.

Some servers do support shorthand, in which case you can start with<? and end with ?> .

But for maximum portablitlity, I do recommend that you stick with the standard <?php rather than shorthand <? .

Heres an example:

<?php

echo “Hello, World”;

?>

Today’s market is getting inundated new PHP websites each day. This means that there is a flux of new PHP Programmers joining the developers in creating and editing these new sites. What we will do is help these new developers gain an understanding of what the basics of PHP Programming are.

Here are a few of the materials covered in the Lessons:

• PHP Basics - Complete
  • How PHP Works - Complete
  • The php.ini File - Complete
  • Basic PHP Syntax
    • PHP Tags - In Progress
    • PHP Statements and Whitespace - In Progress
    • Comments - In Progress
    • PHP Functions - In Progress
    • Hello World! - In Progress
  • Variables - In Progress
    • Variable Types - In Progress
    • Variable Names - In Progress (Identifiers)
    • Type Strength - In Progress
    • Variable Scope - In Progress
    • Superglobals - In Progress
    • Constants - In Progress
    • Variable-Testing and Manipulation Functions - In Progress
  • PHP Operators - In Progress
  • Creating Dynamic Pages - In Progress
    • Single vs. Double Quotes - In Progress
    • Hello World! - In Progress
  • Conclusion - In Progress

For the PHP Basics we are going to assume that your server has basic PHP support and that .php extensions are handled by PHP. If this is the case you’re ready to start as a PHP Programmer. One of the things I love about PHP is that I don’t have to compile anything. I don’t need any extra tools if I don’t want. Just a text editor and ftp program.

I like to think of PHP files as simple HTML documents that allow us to create tags to make the content come to life, dynamically. All you have to do is write the code and save the file to your server. That simple.

As you become more proficient and leave the PHP Basics, you will learn other tools and techniques to write your own code. For now we will just show you what it is to be new to the language.

Our next section covers How PHP Works. Thank you for taking time to read our PHP Basics section.