Playing with new ideas

Lately, I’ve been experimenting with some new ideas and approaches.

I built a new framework last month for some rapid PHP development and my first project was a stats system that I am using to record some analytics for a couple sites.

When it is ready, the site will be released for others to join, but for now, it is just for myself and a few other colleagues to play with.

I’ve gotten the reports working to the point that I can view trends over the past week to see what pages and keywords are getting traffic and which ones are not. This can have a big impact when it comes to affiliate marketing to see which pages of a site work and which ones don’t.

I’ve also gotten a few other reports worked in that are pretty unique to analytics sysems, but I’ll wait til the site is done before getting into them all :)

Overture Keyword Extractor using PHP

After looking around for a class that would extract keywords from the Overture Keyword Inventory database, I decided it was just as well to do up my own class.

You can use this to look up keywords and view the results. Hope you find it useful.





<span style="color: #000000;"><code>01	




<span style="color: #000000;">02</span>   <span style="color: #0000bb;">&lt;?</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">03</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">    class </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">OvertureSuggest </span><span style="color: #007700;">{</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">04</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">        private </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$BaseWords</span><span style="color: #007700;">;</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">05</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">        </span><span style="color: #ff8000;">/** constructor */</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">06</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">        function </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">__construct</span><span style="color: #007700;">(</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$BaseWords</span><span style="color: #007700;">) {</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">07</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$this</span><span style="color: #007700;">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">BaseWords </span><span style="color: #007700;">= </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$BaseWords</span><span style="color: #007700;">;</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">08</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">        }</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">09</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">        function </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">getSuggestions</span><span style="color: #007700;">() {</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">10</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$query </span><span style="color: #007700;">= </span><span style="color: #dd0000;">'http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/'</span><span style="color: #007700;">;</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">11</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$query </span><span style="color: #007700;">.= </span><span style="color: #dd0000;">'?term='</span><span style="color: #007700;">.</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">urlencode</span><span style="color: #007700;">(</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$this</span><span style="color: #007700;">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">mBaseWords</span><span style="color: #007700;">).</span><span style="color: #dd0000;">'&amp;mkt=us&amp;lang=en_US'</span><span style="color: #007700;">;</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">12</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$data </span><span style="color: #007700;">= </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">file_get_contents</span><span style="color: #007700;">(</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$query</span><span style="color: #007700;">);</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">13</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$data </span><span style="color: #007700;">= </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">strip_tags</span><span style="color: #007700;">(</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$data</span><span style="color: #007700;">);</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">14</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$pattern </span><span style="color: #007700;">= </span><span style="color: #dd0000;">"/ ([0-9]+)n (.+)/i"</span><span style="color: #007700;">;</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">15</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">preg_match_all</span><span style="color: #007700;">(</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$pattern</span><span style="color: #007700;">,</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$data</span><span style="color: #007700;">,</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$Matches</span><span style="color: #007700;">);</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">16</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            </span>




<span style="color: #000000;">17</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$Cnts </span><span style="color: #007700;">= </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$Matches</span><span style="color: #007700;">[</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">1</span><span style="color: #007700;">];</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">18</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$Words </span><span style="color: #007700;">= array();</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">19</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            for (</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$i</span><span style="color: #007700;">=</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">0</span><span style="color: #007700;">;</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$i</span><span style="color: #007700;">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">count</span><span style="color: #007700;">(</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$Matches</span><span style="color: #007700;">[</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">2</span><span style="color: #007700;">]);</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$i</span><span style="color: #007700;">++) {</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">20</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">                </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$Words</span><span style="color: #007700;">[</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$Matches</span><span style="color: #007700;">[</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">2</span><span style="color: #007700;">][</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$i</span><span style="color: #007700;">]] = </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">intval</span><span style="color: #007700;">(</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$Cnts</span><span style="color: #007700;">[</span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$i</span><span style="color: #007700;">]);</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">21</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            }</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">22</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">            return </span><span style="color: #0000bb;">$Words</span><span style="color: #007700;">;</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">23</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">        }</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">24</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">    }</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">25</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">    </span>




<span style="color: #000000;">26</span>   <span style="color: #007700;">    </span><span style="color: #ff8000;">// Sample Usage:</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">27</span>   Â Â Â Â $suggest = new OvertureSuggest('Affiliate');




<span style="color: #000000;">28</span>   Â Â Â Â echo "&lt;pre&gt;".print_r ($suggest-&gt;getSuggestions(),true)."&lt;/pre&gt;";




<span style="color: #000000;">29</span>   Â Â Â Â exit;    




<span style="color: #000000;">30</span>   <span style="color: #0000bb;">?&gt;</span>




<span style="color: #000000;">31</span>   

New DevShed Article

DevShed.com has just published another article written by me.

It’s called “Building a Relational Content Management System In PHP / MySQL”

A quick overview of the article as if the name doesn’t say it all is this:

“This article will show you how to build a simple relational content management system. What is a relational CMS you ask? Well, a relational CMS lets you create articles that have child articles.

This works similiar to other CMSes which have categories and then articles; we will just combine them together to be more relational.”

New Article on DevShed.com

DevShed.com has just published another article written by me.

It’s called “Building a Simple Affiliate Systems In PHP / MySQL”

A quick overview of the article as if the name doesn’t say it all is this:

“Setting up an affiliate system on your website can be very lucrative. While there are a lot of details involved, it need not be overly complicated. This article walks you through the steps of creating and setting up a basic affiliate system”

View it here: on DevShed.com

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