Online Invoicing Revisited

09:11.52 - Tuesday 28th September 2004 (Link to This Entry)

Yesterday I added an order history function to the online invoicing setup I've been working on, allowing the owner to see what invoices have been sent out for a given company. With the colour labelling (green=paid, black=unpaid and red=overdue) I've employed it makes it easy to see what it outstanding and what has been dealt with.

I really love PHP for designing websites, since it gives me the power to quickly and easily script actions that would otherwise take loads of pages. In addition, the include(...) command makes it possible for me to modularise a site, for example by creating a header and footer document and simply including them into a blank page. No matter how complicated a page is, it boils down to:

You can even have header.php do some security stuff and bung $secure=1 before the include to activate it for pages that are only accessible with a username and password.

Homer Night

09:14.00 - Tuesday 28th September 2004 (Link to This Entry)

Woohoo! Had a huge pepperoni stuffed-crust pizza last night, all of my very own. I washed it down with several cans of Grolsch and watched The Big Lebowski again. No hangover this morning either.

Free URL Redirection

11:18.04 - Tuesday 28th September 2004 (Link to This Entry)

I've taken time out this morning to do some more work on d04.net - the free Subdomains service. I noticed that there wasn't a lot of promotion going on in there since I had left it at the 'just completed and working nicely' stage without actually pushing it.

I'm going to start promoting it and hopefully pushing it up the ranks of Google et al. People who have benefitted from this will know that it starts producing results really quickly and I intend to have it cross-promoting all of the sub domains that are in existance so far. This have two benefits: promoting the actual sites that have set up d04.net addresses and promoting d04.net itself. As long as the users have entered their keywords, they'll get some free promotion.

Once that bit's done I can start looking at the advertising side of things and get a few more coppers rolling in.