Comments on: PHP Juice

By: altp

altp — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Ken, could i make a request on your referrers page?

Those of us that are showing up as a straight IP address, could you um, hide those?

If you want, you can do anything that has a 157.182.xxx.xxx as WVNet or WVU or something.

Good deal on Moving to PHP
Altp.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Ken,

Why not use a 301 page instead of a meta tag?

Permanent relocation is better than maintaining meta pages.

And when you say moving to php, you mean within movabletype right?

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Mike, I’m not sure if I can. Let me try to find out…

Ryan, I thought the only way to produce HTTP codes was with .htaccess files…is that right? Or is it possible to produce a page that generates a 301?

BTW, I’m still using MT–only my templates have a .php extension now.

By: Jai

Jai — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Ken, your “Boing” sent me to a 404- here’s the test link for you: http://www.kennsarah.net/archives/000313.shtml

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Jai, thanks. This is fixed.

By: Jai

Jai — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Nice K, looks good- now make it 3D http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail80.html

But what’s with the Recent Conversation section? Somehow your comment is embedded in mine. Weird.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Ken,

Good point. That may be. That said, it’s easy to generate a 404. ;P

Maybe you need a host that doesnt mind reasonable .htaccess usage.

Oh - and the front page says this article has 7 comments as i post this. but there are only 5 here. A bit of weirdness there.

By: John A. Bilicki III

John A. Bilicki III — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

In regards to the Refer tracker, is there anything that can print out a list of referal pages that can be put universally on all pages on one’s site? IE like how I define my external css. I couldn’t find a way to contact the author (and I’m at work and bored heh) and was wondering if you could shoot me an email sometime. It would be great to link to those nice enough to link back to those who send folks my way.

By: John A. Bilicki III

John A. Bilicki III — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

After a little (and very lucky digging) I answered my own question…

downes.ca/referrers.htm

By: Ken Walker

Ken Walker — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

John, you may also find Dean Allen’s Refer program of use:

http://www.textism.com/tools/refer/

Spammers, unfortunately, have found ways to abuse refer as well. I’ve had “referring” hits to my site that don’t actually come from real people. Instead, bots are sent out to post fake hits so their “referring” sites (usually affiliated with gambling or porn) get free advertising on our referrer list:

http://www.kennsarah.net/about/refer

Refer lets you filter on keywords to prevent such abuse, but I periodically have to update the filter with new keywords and purge our referring database of the offending entries.

Refer requires PHP and MySQL.