http://www.z01d.com Just another blog about the web Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:21:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is one of those "WoW" moments that make this game worthwhile the time. If you need to scrape off information of the other site, forget regular expressions and string parsing. PHP5 has wonderful DOM Xpath functions that you can use to traverse the scraped page DOM and retrieve your information. ... http://www.z01d.com/2008/08/08/scrape-site-content-with-php5-domxpath-firebug/ To check your site's google positions from the different country/geographic area people used to (ab)use proxies and VPNs. There is a little known feature in Google Adwords that lets and advertiser test whether his/her ad is running under a certain keyword. The great thing about it is the ability to choose ... http://www.z01d.com/2008/08/06/check-your-google-serps-without-proxy-or-vpn/ The other day I wanted to convert MS Word document to text on my VPS. I knew that someone somewhere has already written a program to do just that, and sure enough, some kind folks on the forum mentioned Antiword. Now all we need is to use that prog in ... http://www.z01d.com/2008/07/08/how-to-call-linux-shell-commands-from-php-script/ My last blog was hosted on Dreamhost with a sweet $27/year promotion deal. The year has passed, the deal is over, and so I'm starting from scratch here. [sourcecode language='php'] echo "Hello world!"; [/sourcecode] http://www.z01d.com/2008/07/08/hello-world/