Tag: web development

Our website got a speed boost!

March 21, 2017 /

Never completely satisfied with their insane technological achievements, our engineers have been hard at work once again — this time they were tweaking the first thing you come in contact with when considering joining the Spin Rewriter family… our website!

The website got a thorough behind-the-scenes overhaul, with all sorts of technological advancements. There’s an even better utilization of CDNs (content delivery networks for optimized loading of images, styles and scripts from an array of servers around the world), better delivery of crucial elements for above-the-fold rendering so the pages on our website pop up even more quickly, and a significantly optimized approach to JavaScript elements that make our website even more user-friendly.

We were able to bring our website into the top 10% range of most “speedy” and responsive websites globally, and that’s including the tons of images and a video that always get loaded on the homepage.

Pretty cool! 😀

Spin Rewriter API documentation

December 13, 2011 /

Okay, we just launched the Spin Rewriter API, and we thought – we should get developers on board as effortlessly as possible!

So we prepared a ton of stuff for all of you developers out there, and our efforts should enable you to integrate the Spin Rewriter API into your own apps in 10 minutes or so. Among other things you’ll find:

  • A thorough documentation of all API (HTTP POST) requests and API (JSON) responses. This will give you an idea about the inner workings of our API.
  • 100% functioning code samples (in PHP):
    – a script that will get the remaining number (quota) of API calls
    – a script that will spin your article and return the spun text (with spintax in place)
    – a script that will spin your article and return one of the possible unique variations
  • We prepared an actual official Spin Rewriter API SDK (Standard Development Kit) that’s also available in PHP. This kit comes with a number of examples, and allows you to spin your articles using the Spin Rewriter API with as little as 3 lines of code. 😉
  • A short “Q&A” section that should provide the answers to the most common questions.

You can find everything over at http://www.SpinRewriter.com/api 😀

We love developers just as much as Steve Ballmer (the Microsoft guy), and we want to make everything as easy as possible for you. Oh, and here’s a funny clip of him going just a little bit crazy. 😀

Don’t manually escape all your variables

March 2, 2011 /

Let’s start with something fairly simple, shall we?

I’ve seen way too many programmers escaping all $_POST and $_GET variables like this:

$name = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['name']);
$email = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['email']);
$password = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['password']);

I suggest you simply use something like this from now on:

$post = array();
$get = array();
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
	$post[$key] = escape_string($value);
}
foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
	$get[$key] = escape_string($value);
}
/**
 * escape given variable so we can use it in an SQL query
 * @param anything $value
 * @return anything $escaped_value
 */
function escape_string($value) {
	if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
		$value = stripslashes($value);
	}	
	if (!is_numeric($value)) {
		$value = mysql_real_escape_string($value);
	}	
	return $value;
}

This way you can always use $post instead of $_POST and $get instead of $_GET if you need escaped values. And you can always access the original values in the original $_POST and $_GET variables. Pretty neat, huh? 🙂