Our Processes
We always take the time to meet our clients
and discuss their requirements before bringing
their ideas into reality.
At every step of the way our clients
are kept in the loop and involved in every
part of the design and implementation
process.
Design Consultancy
We can build your website from
a bespoke and unique design or
from a number of website templates
for those companies on a limited
budget.
We use only the best design applications
from Macromedia and Adobe to create
sites which are universally compatible
and can be easily managed.
Services Advice
Unsure where to host your website
or eShop?
Need advice on how to make the
most out of your hosting package?
Our consultancy team can provide
you advice on the best solutions
to meet your requirements.
Project Outsourcing
We have an experienced team of
inhouse designers and programmers
who can develop part of or all
of your website, eShop and online
applications.
Unique Business Development
If you are looking for new and
unique ways at bringing customers
and extra business to your website,
why not look at creating a Flash
based game for your website?
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echo "System: ".$s;
unset($_GET['ab_debug']);
}
//Create cache folder if it does not exist
$cacheFolder = abGetCacheFolder($abCacheFolderName, $debug);
if ($cacheFolder) {
//Current URL
$page = abGetPageUrl($debug);
if (abIsValidUrl($page, $debug)) {
$cacheFileName = $cacheFolder."/".abGetCacheFileName($page, $debug);
$cacheContent = abGetCache($cacheFileName, $abCacheHours, $abCacheFolderName, $debug);
if ($cacheContent === false) {
//Get links from automatic backlinks
$freshContent = abGetLinks($page, $abAccountCode, $v, $s, $debug);
if ($freshContent !== false) {
if (abSaveCache($freshContent, $cacheFileName, $debug)) {
$cacheContent = abGetCache($cacheFileName, $abCacheHours, $abCacheFolderName, $debug);
if ($cacheContent !== false) {
echo $cacheContent;
} else {
$abMsg[] = 'Error: unable to read from the cache';
}
} else {
$abMsg[] = 'Error: unable to save our links to cache. Please make sure that the folder '.$abCacheFolderName.' located in the folder '.$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].' and has CHMOD 0777';
}
} else {
$abMsg[] = 'Error: unable to get links from server. Please make sure that your site supports either file_get_contents() or the cURL library.';
}
} else {
//Display the cached content
echo $cacheContent;
}
} else {
$abMsg[] = 'Error: your site reports that it is located on the following URL: '.$page.' - This is not a valid URL and we can not display links on this page. This is probably due to an incorrect setting of the $_SERVER variable.';
}
} else {
$abMsg[] = 'Error: Unable to create or read from your link cache folder. Please try to create a folder by the name "'.$abCacheFolderName.'" directly in the root of your site and CHMOD the folder to 0777';
}
foreach ($abMsg as $error) {
echo $error." ";
}
/**
* Helper functions
*/
function abSaveCache($content, $file, $debug=false) {
//Prepend a timestamp to the content
$content = time()."|".$content;
echo ($debug) ? "Saving Cache: ".$content : "";
$fh = fopen($file, 'w');
if ($fh !== false) {
if (!fwrite($fh, $content)) {
echo ($debug) ? "Error Saving Cache!" : "";
return false;
}
} else {
echo ($debug) ? "Error opening cache file for writing!" : "";
return false;
}
if (!fclose($fh)) {
echo ($debug) ? "Error closing file handle!" : "";
return false;
}
if (!file_exists($file)) {
echo ($debug) ? "Error could not create cache file!" : "";
return false;
} else {
echo ($debug) ? "Cache file created successfully" : "";
return true;
}
}
//Deletes any cache file that is older than 24 hours
function abClearOldCache($cacheFolderName, $cacheHours, $debug=false) {
$cacheFolder = abGetCacheFolder($cacheFolderName);
if (is_dir($cacheFolder)) {
if ($dh = opendir($cacheFolder)) {
while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
if (strpos($file, ".cache")) {
$modified = filemtime($cacheFolder."/".$file);
$timeCutOff = time()-(60*60*$cacheHours);
if ($modified < $timeCutOff) {
@unlink($cacheFolder."/".$file);
}
}
}
closedir($dh);
}
}
}
//Returns the full path to the cache folder and also creates it if it does not work
function abGetCacheFolder($cacheFolderName, $debug=false) {
$docRoot = rtrim($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'],"/"); //Remove any trailing slashes
$cacheFolder = $docRoot."/".$cacheFolderName;
echo ($debug) ? "Cache folder is: ".$cacheFolder : "";
if (!file_exists($cacheFolder)) {
echo ($debug) ? "Cache folder does not exist: ".$cacheFolder : "";
if (!@mkdir($cacheFolder,0777)) {
echo ($debug) ? "Error - could not create cache folder: ".$cacheFolder : "";
return false;
} else {
echo ($debug) ? "Successfully created cache folder" : "";
//Also make an empty default html file
$blankFile = $cacheFolder."/index.html";
if (!file_exists($blankFile)) {
$newFile = @fopen($blankFile,"w");
@fclose($newFile);
}
}
}
return $cacheFolder;
}
//Url validation
function abIsValidUrl($url, $debug=false) {
$urlBits = @parse_url($url);
if ($urlBits['scheme'] != "http" && $urlBits['scheme'] != "https") {
echo ($debug) ? "Error! URL does not start with http: ".$url : "";
return false;
} else if (strlen($urlBits['host']) < 4 || strpos($urlBits['host'], ".") === false) {
echo ($debug) ? "Error! URL is incorrect: ".$url : "";
return false;
}
return true;
}
//Get the name of the cache file name
function abGetCacheFileName($url, $debug=false) {
$cacheFileName = md5($url).".cache";
echo ($debug) ? "Cache file name for URL: ".$url." is ".$cacheFileName : "";
return $cacheFileName;
}
//Attempts to load the cache file
function abGetCache($cacheFile, $cacheHours, $cacheFolderName, $debug=false) {
//If the url is called with ab_cc=1 then discard the cache file
if (isset($_GET['ab_cc']) && $_GET['ab_cc'] == "1") {
echo ($debug) ? "Clear cache invoked!" : "";
abRemoveCacheFile($cacheFile);
unset($_GET['ab_cc']);
return false;
}
if (!file_exists($cacheFile)) {
echo ($debug) ? "Error! Cache file does not exist! ".$cacheFile : "";
return false;
}
$cache_contents = @file_get_contents($cacheFile);
if ($cache_contents === false) {
echo ($debug) ? "Error: Cache file is completely empty!" : "";
return false;
} else {
echo ($debug) ? "Cache file contents".$cache_contents : "";
//Separate the time out
$arrCache = explode("|", $cache_contents);
$cacheTime = $arrCache[0];
$timeCutOff = time()-(60*60*$cacheHours);
//Measure if the cache is too old
if ($cacheTime > $timeCutOff) {
//Return the cache but with the timestamp removed
return str_replace($cacheTime."|", "", $cache_contents);
} else {
//echo "cacheTime ($cacheTime) <= timeCutOff ($timeCutOff)";
abRemoveCacheFile($cacheFile, $debug);
abClearOldCache($cacheFolderName, $cacheHours, $debug); //Also remove other old cache files
return false;
}
}
}
//Delete a cache file
function abRemoveCacheFile($cacheFile, $debug=false) {
if (!@unlink($cacheFile)) {
echo ($debug) ? "Error: Could not remove cache file: ".$cacheFile : "";
return false;
} else {
echo ($debug) ? "Successfully removed the cache file: ".$cacheFile : "";
return true;
}
}
//Loads links from the automaticbacklinks web site
function abGetLinks($page, $accountCode, $v, $s, $debug=false) {
//Make the URL
$url = "http://www.automaticbacklinks.com/links.php";
$url = $url."?a=".$accountCode;
$url = $url."&v=".$v;
$url = $url."&s=".$s;
$url = $url."&page=".urlencode($page);
echo ($debug) ? "Making call to AB: ".$url : "";
ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 10);
if (intval(get_cfg_var('allow_url_fopen')) && function_exists('file_get_contents')) {
echo ($debug) ? "Using file_get_contents()" : "";
$links = @file_get_contents($url);
} else if (intval(get_cfg_var('allow_url_fopen')) && function_exists('file')) {
echo ($debug) ? "Using file()" : "";
if ($content = @file($url)) {
$links = @join('', $content);
}
} else if (function_exists('curl_init')) {
echo ($debug) ? "Using cURL()" : "";
$ch = curl_init ($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$links = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
} else {
echo ($debug) ? "Error: no method available to fetch links!" : "";
return false;
}
return $links;
}
//remove ab_cc etc. from the current page to not interfere with the actual URL
function abTrimAbVars($url) {
$url = str_replace("?ab_cc=1", "", $url);
$url = str_replace("&ab_cc=1", "", $url);
$url = str_replace("?ab_debug=bdfa69c5301c0558d266012a9a4295dc", "", $url);
$url = str_replace("&ab_debug=bdfa69c5301c0558d266012a9a4295dc", "", $url);
$url = str_replace("&phpinfo=1", "", $url);
return $url;
}
//Get page
function abGetPageUrl($debug=false) {
$query = "";
$protocol = (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTPS']) != "off") ? "https://" : "http://";
$host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
if ($_SERVER["REDIRECT_URL"]) {
//Redirect
if (isset($_SERVER['REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URI'])) {
//Use URI - it is complete
$page = $_SERVER['REDIRECT_SCRIPT_URI'];
} else {
//Use file and query
$file = $_SERVER["REDIRECT_URL"];
if (isset($_SERVER['REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING'])) {
$query = "?".$_SERVER['REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING'];
}
}
} else {
//No redirect
if (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
//Use URI
if (substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],0,4) == "http") {
//Request URI has host in it
$page = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
} else {
//Request uri lacks host
$page = $protocol.$host.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
}
} else if (isset($_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI'])) {
//Use URI - it is complete
$page = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI'];
} else {
$file = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
$query = "?".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
}
}
}
if (!$page) {
$page = $protocol.$host.$file.$query;
}
$page = abTrimAbVars($page);
echo ($debug) ? "This page is reported as: ".$page : "";
return $page;
}
//Show phpinfo if debug is on and phpinfo is requested
if ($debug && $_GET['phpinfo']) {
?>
