Web Metrics Monitor update

This Wednesday I successfully presented the first part of my Senior Project at AUBG - the Web Metrics Monitor (WMM) project. The purpose of the project is to provide a robust, user-friendly and accessible web analytics tool. So far I’ve implemented the basic functionality and user interface. The back-end is implemented in PHP and includes [...]

Using PHPMailer with Gmail

I was adding automated mailing lists to the admin panel of Radio AURA’s website when I noticed that the university firewall was blocking email from the server for some reason when I was using PHP’s mail(). Then I decided to use PHPMailer and send the e-mails through Gmail’s SMTP servers but PHPMailer was returning an [...]

Silverstripe: just another CMS, or a gold nugget?

I was looking for a flexible and user-friendly CMS to use in a project I am doing for Ardent Interactive. My prime candidate was Wordpress until I was referred to the website of a CMS I had never heard about - Silverstripe. It’s an open-source CMS written in PHP and offering a flexible MVC development [...]