One of the reasons why Apache is such a popular web server is because it’s almost infinitely expandable and flexible. There are some incredibly powerful things you can do with Apache’s config settings, and .htaccess is the most common way to modify those settings.
First a little background. .htaccess is the name of the file. Yes, [...]

Having an outbound link script is a good idea for many reason. You can quickly and easily change particular types of links throughout your site. You can control the flow of PageRank, and you can keep search engine spiders away from paid links that they don’t want to see. This post goes into how to build an outbound link script using PHP.

Rotating banner ads are extremely useful and far more effective than static ads that people quickly ignore as “visual noise”. This post shows you an easy way to write a script that can put random banner ads on your site without needing a database or complicated third party solution.

You don’t actually need to have a database to have some dynamic content on your site. You can use arrays instead. Let’s say you want to randomly show 3 Star Wars DVD box covers from Amazon.com with links to the item on Amazon. To do that you’d need three things - 1) The title of [...]