How To: Insert Ads Only After the First Post
If you use WordPress like I do, and are looking to add in adsense (or any other type of advertisement) but only want to display it after your first post (not after every single post on the home page) then this helpful article is for you. I know you can also do the same thing with plugins, but this show you where to do it right your code, and it's very simple!
Daylight Savings
It's not just your home clocks you need to change today... if you live in an area that observes daylight savings time, you can also adjust the clocks on your website. This can be done in the in the date function using the I (capitol i) setting. This should be set to 1 when entering daylight savings and to 0 when leaving it.
What CMS Do You Use?
I had tried a lot of different softwares for my personal website, before settling on WordPress and Gallery2. Do you have a personal website that you use a content management system for? Please share with us what you love and hate about your CMS!
Pregnancy Due Date Calculator
The estimated due date of a baby is calculated by adding 266 days to ovulation, or 280 days to the first day of the last menstrual cycle. For our calculation, 280 days is converted to 24192000 seconds. Read More.
Wordpress Plugin Upgrades
Do you do your Wordpress plugin upgrades manually, or do you use the automatic updater? The automatic upgrades can be nice, but they can also cause problems. For more information about how to use automatic upgrades click here.
Print or Echo
Our Print or Echo question is our most popular reader response. We ask you, do you generally use Print or Echo? Want to reply, or see what your fellow readers picked? Answer now!
HTML is important for PHP
PHP works closely with HTML, and can be embedded right into your existing HTML code. If you are not familiar with HTML you should learn the basics before starting PHP. You can learn the basics or just brush up right here on About.com from our web design and HTML guide.
Area of a Rectangle
When you are first learning to use PHP, before you start writing any fancy scripts, the best thing to do is to write lots of simple ones. This tutorial shows you how to make a script that calculates the area of a rectangle from user imputed length and width. From this we learn how to collect user data, preform basic math, and output the user's response.
Floor () - Always Rounding Down
The Floor() PHP function is used to always round down to the nearest whole number. The PHP function Floor () behaves identical to the MySQL use; even the largest decimal will always be rounded down.
How To CHMOD from FTP
The most common reason you will need to change the CHMOD of a file or folder in PHP is to write data to a folder (image uploads for example) or a file (such as a flat file database.) This is a very easy process that you can do though most FTP programs. Although the screenshot in this article is from the FTP program Transmit, most FTP programs work in a similar way so the same steps and concepts will apply.

