Archive for January, 2009

Autorenewal and Paypal subscriptions

I despise this tactic (automatic renewals without notifying the customer), so it was refreshing to learn I was not the only victim of this.
From namepros.com

I got a Paypal receipt today for $99.99 from a company I didn’t recognize. My first thought was a scam or I accidentally signed up for something. However, I noticed the [...]


Neat wordpress trick

Extract all the emails from the comments in a wordpress blog.
I haven’t tried this yet but saw it on a webmaster forum.
<?
$db_host = “localhost”;
$db_user = “username”;
$db_password = “password”;
$db_name = “database”;

$connect=mysql_connect($db_host,$db_user,$db_password) or die(mysql_error());
$db=mysql_select_db($db_name, $connect) or die(mysql_error());

$result=mysql_query(“select comment_author_email from wp_comments”);
while($row=@mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$email=$row[comment_author_email];
echo $email;
}

?>
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