Ali Damji | Blog » Web Development http://www.alidamji.com/blog Ali Damji's Personal Blog Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:39:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Bongoza (beta) launch http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2008/04/23/bongoza-beta-launch/ http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2008/04/23/bongoza-beta-launch/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:12:00 +0000 Ali Damji http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2008/04/23/bongoza-beta-launch/ bongoza_soon.jpg
Bongoza.co.tz A Tanzanian Search Engine has been launched. Its in beta :)

]]> http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2008/04/23/bongoza-beta-launch/feed/ 0 bNet Radius Billing System (Part 1) http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2006/11/12/bnet-radius-billing-system-part-1/ http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2006/11/12/bnet-radius-billing-system-part-1/#comments Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:47:22 +0000 Ali Damji http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2006/11/12/bnet-radius-billing-system-part-1/ I started building it yesterday… I have currently finished the following features:
- Check users Online
- List Accounts/Customers
- Add/Edit Groups (With Add/Remove Attributed) – radgroupcheck/radgroureply
- Check Calls Log – Who came online and how long, etc..

Attached are a few Screenshots…

Customer Information Screen

Users Online Screen

]]> http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2006/11/12/bnet-radius-billing-system-part-1/feed/ 0 Writing a Search Engine Crawler in PHP http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2006/10/19/writing-a-search-engine-crawler-in-php/ http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2006/10/19/writing-a-search-engine-crawler-in-php/#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:33:45 +0000 Ali Damji http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2006/10/19/writing-a-search-engine-crawler-in-php/ Hi There,
Those who know me, Know that i run Bongoza, The currently close to non-existant search engine. Well, That will change in a few months once i get my server up and Running.

Anyway… For the crawler you need:
- Snoopy Agent (Fetches the Webpage, Extracts the Text, Strips the Links, etc)
- Web Server with PHP
- Some Time (And maybe more to tweak Snoopy)

Crawling Process:
- Fetch Page main page
- Strip Links found on Page, Put in Array for links to be fetched
- Parse page and extract data (Text, Meta Tags, Size, etc.)
- Index Page
- Start fetching pages from Array of links to be fetched. Repeat as Above.

Well, Thats pretty much the idea. Will be posting the code after i get some time to completely finish the code with a lot more features like robots.txt support and all the other features i can think of.

]]> http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2006/10/19/writing-a-search-engine-crawler-in-php/feed/ 0 A basic introduction to mod_rewrite. http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2006/10/02/a-basic-introduction-to-mod_rewrite/ http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2006/10/02/a-basic-introduction-to-mod_rewrite/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:38:35 +0000 Ali Damji http://www.alidamji.com/blog/?p=3 If you want a good simple tutorial on how to use mod_rewrite for your site, Take a look at this: http://london-seo.com/a-basic-introduction-to-mod_rewrite/18/ ]]> http://www.alidamji.com/blog/2006/10/02/a-basic-introduction-to-mod_rewrite/feed/ 0