This is the third part of the integration how-to... As an exercise, you can use the google search integrated in this blog to find the others... For that, you have to modify the templates in two places: One to display the goolge search form and the other is the place where to display the results... The following instructions are made to keep the down-time of the site as low as possible, by first editing temporary files and replacing the files on the server at the very last step... There are basically two files to edit: One, where the search box is to be displayed and the other is the file to display the results... To find the section for other templates, look line like this: (For the Standard template, this is in the footer.template, for the Spollo I found it in the header.template)... The content of this file is the code that Google gave you to display the results... h2 class="post-title" {$locale- tr("search_results")} /h2 br/ div class="post-info" {* start google code * } div id="cse-search-results" /div script type="text/javascript" var googleSearchIframeName = "cse-search-results"; var googleSearchFormName = "cse-search-box"; var googleSearchFrameWidth = 800; var googleSearchDomain = "www.google.com"; var googleSearchPath = "/cse"; /script script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/afsonline/show_afs_search.js" /script {* end google code *} /div... … View Post »

Finding a hosting company for web projects might be a tedious task: There is just too much choice and unfortunately there are also some black sheeps out there... Well I found another one, which is worth to be mentioned: Web Hosting Geeks not only provide a source for companies in the hosting business, they also provide web hosting rating: Users can rate the providers, comment them and tell out of their experience with that hoster... The good thing about this site is, that they set up minimum quality criteria: This is especially useful for the unexperienced users, as listed companies cover the most important things, presented in a user-friendly way... If the target audience of their site is really the beginners, as they also have a huge article section covering some very important topics in their article section... But where is light, there is also shadow: The choices seems to somewhat limited... … View Post »

Because of personal experience, it is good to test a kernel prior flashing it: It ould happen, that the Thecus won ' t boot with a new kernel... I learned this the hard way... if you prefer to run the debian installer from RAM, (for tests, or if you don ' t wan ' t to reflash your current firmware) if you want to uninstall debian and revert to the original firmware... So just "pull the plug" to revert to the old state... (Please note, that I assume some Unix knowledge in this article... For Linux and other Unixes, install the package and then create the directory /var/lib/tftpboot ... NOTE: This is only for updating to a newer release, like from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25... (See the man page for details and other options)... … View Post »

This is the third part of the integration how-to... As an exercise, you can use the google search integrated in this blog to find the others... For that, you have to modify the templates in two places: One to display the goolge search form and the other is the place where to display the results... I tried my best to avoid messing with the PHP Code: No line of code has to be changed!... On zero hits, it will display an error page instead, and on exaclty one hit, it will display the article found... This one is only for reference and will not work on your blog... h2 Google {$locale- tr("Search")} /h2 div id="badges" style="float:left" { * start google code * } form action="http://blog.coldtobi.de/index.php" id="cse-search-box" div input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:xxxxxxxxxxx" / input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" / input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" / input type="text" name="q" size="16" / input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" / /div /form script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box... h2 class="post-title" {$locale- tr("search_results")} /h2 br/ div class="post-info" {* start google code * } div id="cse-search-results" /div script type="text/javascript" var googleSearchIframeName = "cse-search-results"; var googleSearchFormName = "cse-search-box"; var googleSearchFrameWidth = 800; var googleSearchDomain = "www.google.com"; var googleSearchPath = "/cse"; /script script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/afsonline/show_afs_search.js" /script {* end google code *} /div... … View Post »

This is the second part of the "seamless integration of Google Search into lifetype"... Seamless integration Google Search into Lifetype (Part 1 -- Introduction) Register and Configure A Custom Search Engine (this article) Edit the template for the search results Provide a search entry field in the menu... To get the results integrated into the blog, you defintly need the option that you want the results displayed on a dedicaed page... Of course, you need a URL for the result page: You just need to enter your blog URL here... In my case, it is http://blog.coldtobi.de/index.php ... After naming your engine and accepting the Terms, you get your personal search engine code... One is for the spot where to put the widget, and the other is the one to put on the result page: (note, this is only for reference... form action="http://blog.coldtobi.de/index.php" id="cse-search-box" div input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-2920186055509438:gvm6c13c2n5" / input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:10" / input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" / input type="text" name="q" size="16" / input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" / /div /form script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box... … View Post »

And where reality outreached every imagination of the brilliant directors -- at least seen 25 years later... And watching such a great film at the cinema is *great* But this is only on one day: The 25th Anniversary event is only playing on July 24th... … View Post »

Some weeks ago , I integrated the Google Search into the blogging platform on this site... At this time I already planned to do a "how to", as this might be also interesting for others... Seamless integration means, that the search results are embedded in the look and feel of the blog: It should use the same templates and also present the search results matching to the design of the blog... Of course, you don ' t want to maintain different template system, so best the search engine will use exactly the same template files also used for the rest of the blog... The webserver running lifetype must support Rewrite-rules ... Provide a search entry field in the menu... Click on the links to get to the parts..... … View Post »

You can also test it by yourself is two steps:... support... Create an empty directory in your webspace (name it "test"), create a index.html in this directory... Try to show the page in your web browser to confirm that it works... Now, check if you can still access your test file: If you get "Access Denied", your hoster supports htaccess... … View Post »

Well, I am still alive ;-) but currently I justing lack teh time for blogging..... … View Post »