Script Name: Bible Search
Script URI: http://www.christian-web-masters.com/2006/08/25/bible-search/
Web Service URI: http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/share/services/
Description: Bible Search PHP Script Based on the ESV (English Standard Version) Web Service
Features include:
1. Search results on your website
2. Seach by Passage reference (e.g., John 1 or Gen 16)
3. Find Verses
a. containing all the words
b. containing the exact phrase
c. not containing the words
4. Focus search by:
a. book of the Bible
b. Match
- Anywhere in words (the also finds father)
- Beginnings of words only (the also finds there but not father) - slower
- Exact matches only (the only finds the) - slower
c. Complete text of the Bible, including headings and footnotes
d. Text of the Bible only
Introduction
Using PHP and mySQL
You've probably seen those short and sweet URLs that "jump" or "go" somewhere. In my early days (last year) as a PHP coder, webmaster of a new PHP/mySQL-based site and e-zine editor, I noticed more and more of these jump urls. They got my attention because they seemed like an easy way to:
1. Reduce the length of especially long URLs
2. "Hide" the identity of a link
The former item was especially critical when I wanted to display a newsletter link to information that would be of great interest to my readers, but the length of the URL exceeded the standard 65-character limit of standard text newsletter lines. A URL that breaks into a second line of text is virtually useless to the reader -- it's not clickable "as is", and it requires one or more copy-and-paste operations to get it into the browser's address line.
PHP Photo Gallery Introduction
As a friend once told me, "Images equal bandwidth and bandwidth equals money."
Many sites, especially those for ministries, do not have the money it takes to be able to distribute a lot of images on their web pages. And many people are still using dial-up and other slower connections to the Internet and get very impatient waiting for pages with "heavy graphics" to load.
Photo galleries are notorious for these problems because each page often has ten to twenty "thumbnailed" pictures among other layout graphics. But we would all still love a simple, easy to manage photo gallery on our sites.
Jim Auldridge (CWM Communit Member: JAAulde) has written an easy-to-use script to display items from your Half.com wishlist.
Some of the nice features of this script include displaying one random item from the list every time the script is loaded and easily customized text output.
Download the free php script now
Jim Auldridge
http://www.auldridges.comJim Auldridge is an active member of the Christian-web-masters.com forums.
As is usually the case, this tutorial has come about as a result of a project that I got myself tangled up in...
Community member Jim Auldridge has written an easy to use, nicely design Gust Book script. Download it today and give it a try on your website.
Here on C-W-M we have had a lot of interest lately in using PHP mail functions. PHP provides an easy way to collect information on your website. Everything from a contact form to an online survey, to a ?Tell a Friend? script can be built from a few easy to learn pieces of code. Click to read the first part of a series PHP Mail Form Script Tutorials.
Updated: Now using SMTP
Updated: Now checks for spam content to prevent abuse. (17th Feb 2006). Please download the latest version.
(Now updated with a second version that uses SMTP)
This free PHP Tell-A-Friend script offers you a lot of customization options.
Your users can add a custom message, their name, and their email.
You can add a custom introduction, subject line, and closing statement.
You can be notified when people refer others to your site or a specific page.
This mail form is programmed in PHP and will send you the results from any form you submit to it. This is a handy "swiss-army knife" tool for Christian web designers working on a server running PHP. Click here to download it: http://www.christian-web-masters.com/downloads/php_mailForm.zip
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this script, you can do so on the forums here: http://www.christian-web-masters.com/forums/index.php?showtopic15
Introduction
Using PHP and mySQL
Luckily for me, I use PHP and mySQL. If you do, too, here's an easy solution that you can cobble together quickly.
Start by creating a simple mySQL table called "redirects". If your hosting service doesn't provide a front-end for mySQL table creation, execute an SQL statement like this:
CREATE TABLE redirects ( id mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, address varchar(200) NOT NULL, label varchar(60) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id), KEY id (id, address), UNIQUE id_2 (id));