How to Create a Torrent Tracker: Part 4 – Search Engine

BitTorrent,Programming,Web Development 7 September 2009 | 3 Comments

One of the most important parts of a torrent site is definitely the search engine. It is probably the first thing people are going to use, and a bug free search form will greatly improve user experience. In this tutorial, we are going to implement a Browse section including torrent details columns, paging, and a [...]

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Custom WordPress Pages and Canonical Links

Programming,Web Development,WordPress 17 August 2009 | 1 Comment

WordPress is not just a blogging platform. With some work, you can turn it out into a full working CMS. The simplest and most powerful way to extend it is through Custom Pages. As an example, my torrent site vgmTorrents is based on WordPress and makes wide use of custom templates.

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How to Create a Torrent Tracker: Part 3 – Torrent and User Details

BitTorrent,Programming,Web Development 15 August 2009 | 6 Comments

In this third part of the tutorial, our goal is to show some information about our torrents and users. We’ll go through a bunch of tips and snippets that any developer may find useful while developing a torrent site, such as some util functions to display relative times, friendly sizes and a tree with files [...]

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How to Create a Torrent Tracker: Part 2 – Upload Form

BitTorrent,Programming,Web Development 15 July 2009 | 4 Comments

In the previous part of this guide, we have seen how to run the XBTT tracker on our server and built a basic torrent download system with passkey support. Now we need a way to upload our torrents, so in this second part we’ll see how to create a fully working upload form featuring validation [...]

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How to Create a Torrent Tracker with PHP and XBTT: Part 1

BitTorrent,Programming,Web Development 24 June 2009 | 16 Comments

When ideas for my last project started popping out in my mind, I didn’t know much about how BitTorrent trackers work. I was like: “I’m sure there’s some cool well-written package designed to build a private tracker. I’m going to get it”. I thought I would find some well estabilished project, with readable code, support, [...]

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