Is your IP banned from your own WHMCS?
Who can remember all their passwords all the time? I have a password manager, and I still don’t get it right. I use the WHMCS software to manage client hosting and such, and so sometimes I get locked out of my own system because I’ve tried too many times to log in! Read more&hellip
Here’s how to un-ban yourself:
Don’t use the Interspire Shopping Cart? Check it out; it rocks.
The Interspire Shopping Cart is a great tool, but it’s missing some stuff out of the box.
This is how the Panel looks in the 'Adventure' theme.
I am working on a shopping cart for a client, and wanted to incorporate a drop down menu of brand names using a standard <select> form. Sounds easy, right? Well, it’s not included in the Interspire cart. Read more&hellip
The Interspire cart has few brand options out of the box:
- The Brands tag cloud – using the
SideBrandTagCloud.html Panel
- Brands unordered list – using the
SideShopByBrand.html or SideShopByBrandFull.html Panels
This tutorial will show you how to add a brands drop down menu in 5 steps.
Redirecting a website in ColdFusion (.CFM)
I have been working on a ColdFusion website, and I wanted to find a way to require ‘www.’ in the URL (to consolidate all pages on www. for SEO). I normally work with PHP and Apache servers, so I’m used to .htaccess. I knew there had to be a way.
Here’s a simple method of redirecting a whole website in ColdFusion:
<!-- If the site isn't www... -->
<cfif (CGI.SERVER_NAME NEQ "www.example.com")>
<!-- Save the URL (and $_GET variables too) as the string 'strUrl' -->
<cfset strUrl = CGI.script_name & "?" & CGI.query_string />
<!-- Use 301 for SEO-friendly redirects -->
<cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved permanently">
<!-- Redirect to new website (this case, added www.) with strUrl added on -->
<cfheader name="Location" value="http://www.example.com#strUrl#">
</cfif> Read more&hellip

PHP includes for Blogger
Before writing this post, I looked online to see if others have written about this same topic. This might as well be Michael Gray’s “Integrating Blogger Into Your Website: Part II”, which he never wrote — though he did write Part I.
Step 1: Switch Blogger files to PHP
First, you need to update your publishing settings so that Blogger publishes your posts in PHP, not HTML (thanks to DevDoctor):
- Set up your blog to publish via FTP (on Publishing tab)
- Change the ‘Blog Filename’ to index.php
- Change ‘Archive Filename’ to archive.php (on Archiving tab)
- Finally, delete the old index.html file from the blog directory (otherwise it will probably take precedence over the new index.php)
Once you’ve got Blogger pushing out PHP, you’re able to do PHP stuff with the site:
- Update the entire site at once - When I create a website, I always want to create the structure using PHP includes, so that I can set global site variables, and if I change it in one place, it changes across the whole website.
- Set active navigation – Using SSI includes, I used to have to include a different file for each blog section on the site so that I could up. Here, I just send a variable to the navigation.php file, which tells it what page is active.
Next, I will show how to include these files. Read more&hellip