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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How to Extend Bulk Actions in WordPress

Programming,WordPress 15 August 2009 | 4 Comments

While developing WordBB, at a certain point I needed to extend the Users panel in the wp-admin area. I wanted to add a custom column with a dropdown menu for each user row. And so I did, but then I quickly realized that there’s no hook that allows to override the behaviour of the bulk [...]

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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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