We recently migrated some of our websites to a new VPS with Inmotion hosting. After the migration, everything went smooth (pretty much.. but as smooth as a server transfer can be), except one issue – all the timthumb.php scripts were not working well in Wordpress, which meant that blog thumbnails were not generating.
So for example, the following URL returned a 404 error, and defaulted to Wordpress’ 404 page:
http://www.sonikastudios.com/wp-content/themes/sonikas/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/DSC01426-600×337.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=100
This happened on this very blog (www.jeffkee.com) as well. So then I went to check other things out, and found out that other …

As many of you know, I’ve been working on programming the TTZMedia’s Affiliate Banner System for the last several months for John Chow, and there’s always ongoing maintenance to do. Speed and load optimization, design fixes, and stats modules upgrades, referral program add-ons, etc.
One of the things that came up as we started accepting more affiliates who are not friends with John Chow was this : CLICK FRAUD.
So many affiliates are starting to take advantage of it, logging more clicks than they should, that are not deserved.
Here are some of …

ActiveX controls – a method of an embedded controlling system that gets deployed on your computer from a website so that certain websites can perform more robust functions – that’s what it is basically. It was a Microsoft creation, and when the internet was young and not as powerful, it was a goldmine for web-based software. Some major websites that use ActiveX controls is MLSLINK for realtors (Multiple Listing Service which provides real-time online listing data). Also, Quickbooks online (an accounting management system that tracks income and expenses) uses ActiveX …

I’m sure so many people have been talking about this, and I will pitch my 2 cents in to this concept which is one of the greatest pinnacles of Web 2.0 – “Segregation of Data and Presentation”
You guys are all going “What…???” if you don’t know much about web design. And even if you do, if have been focusing only on the small stuff like how to make that PNG show on IE or how to apply transparency on objects, you won’t get this right away – here’s an opportunity …

It’s so common these days to see pop-ups in websites. When you click on the privacy statement, you see a pop-up. When you click to view the disclaimer (if you ever do) you see a pop up. Or, the page switches over entirely.
I can never shut up about how much of a big fan I am in making website processes simpler. Of course, there are factors such as my time (which is usually subject to my clients’ budgets), as well as difficulty and how easy it is to maintain, but …

I was developing a website on my testserver, which both myself and my client accessed through client.jeffkee.com subdomain. Throughout development, there were a lot of AJAX modules to be put in – AJAX modules that should not be hacked.
Basically the best way to check for the header is to use the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] variable, and make an if() statement to ensure that the server-side PHP file pertaining to the AJAX module was called by a file within my own server. The $sitepath variable was set to http://client.jeffkee.com/ for match verification.
Once it …

I’ve been usign AJAX for a while, but it’s always a hassle to have to set up the Ajax module initially before you can start calling the data in. I remember I’ve tried about 3 different Ajax modules in total, and the 3rd one I found was the one I thought to be the best, with the most flexibility.
(if you don’t know what AJAX is, read up on this AJAX tutorial)
It’s the prototype.js framework, and I’m sure a lot of you savvy users know about it already. AJAX is only …