Philip

Let's keep it on-topic guys. FYI, Freedom - next time I'd suggest having that conversation over a PM to prevent trolling

Main reason I ask is because you could also just include the file & use ignore_user_abort or just setup a cron

Erm, why?

I agree with premiso. I like having choice over what I can do with my server.

See: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=58799.0

So.. I'm always looking to expand to use tools to make my life easier and get the job quicker... What are some of your bookmarks / JS bookmarklets (not stand alone programs, browser add-ons, etc.) that help you during your web development times? I'll start off with my list: Visual Event JS Bookmarklet, let's you see what events are attached to what DOM nodes. CodeViper Bookmark, a PHP pastebin that shows the output of the code. Useful for IRC/IM help JsFiddle Bookmark, similar to CodeViper, it's a JS (multiple frameworks available for use), HTML, and CSS pastebin that shows the output of code. Useful for IRC/IM help NoisePNG Bookmark, creates a repeatable .png tile with noise (you choose the amounts) border radius Bookmark, quickly create cross-browser (webkit, gecko, standard css3) border radius just by changing the numbers on the corners PreMailer Bookmark, Check & tidy up HTML email source codes before sending to your userbase

I think Harry lies more than he says Welcome to the forums

Whoah, that is tricky. IMO that shouldn't happen, but what do I know On output this is what I see:

Google Analytics will still suffice for this If you really wanted to do it on your own though, you could do another table (or column) for views and just increment (update query) on each page view.

You want something that will generate data, no?

http://www.generatedata.com/

Yes, because cookies are delicious

Nope, not by any means. However, they were one of the first bigger sites to get in trouble because of things like beacon

I personally don't mind as much as most. If it's about eventually getting me a better user experience, then fine. Are the practices the best? No, not really... but in the end if you don't like it, block their cookies. BTW most ad blockers don't actually refuse the connection to the ad - the just add a "display:none" to the div so it hides it from your view. They are technically still there on the page (tracking your every move )

joe, you must absolutely hate malls then.

I took it down a few weeks ago, but HasSonyBeenHackedThisWeek.com (hsbhtw.com)

I recently had a site go viral, and although I had hoped that it would... I did almost nothing to make it do so. Seriously. A couple of back links, some social media, and then I let word of mouth do the rest. Will this always work? No, but it worked just fine for me. In just a few days time I had a site that had a 300,000+ visits, a few writeups in some major newspapers and some other forms of media attention. The moral of the story? Make your idea sell itself. Word of mouth is powerful. A little advertising doesn't hurt, but let's face it... if you don't have a big budget then find other ways to advertise than Google AdWords or the like. Backlinks off of forums, blogs, etc.

Man, if this isn't sarcasm I don't know what is

Yet... it never retries..

I wouldn't so much pick one based off of which is easiest to learn, but instead which suits your needs best: http://www.phpframeworks.com/

And the function names are bigger, because everything is bigger in TX, is it not?

Yup, it will help with speed. Also, later if you decide to switch to a real cdn / other server, then its pretty much upload the files to the other server(s) and point your new DNS to it.

For the separate domain I typically stick with static.domain.com or cdn.domain.com (usually this). And yes, you can host a subdomain on a separate server, just point the A record in the DNS settings to the correct IP.

IMO go with a lump sum for your first project

Apparently I have a fear of finishing a personal project, since I've started several and haven't gotten around to finishing them.