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You could write a module that would check entries from your referrer log.
The best way to check if it's spam would be with a bayesian filter.
Sure , it will take some coding / training the filter but this seems to me like the best option.

Check out Drupal. It has a cache feature to help out in case of slashdottings.
I have not RT'd the FA, but if you're stuff is PHP based, check out Phunami. I came across that one a few days ago and it looked pretty interesting... Caches pages depending on referer.

Cheers!

Sounds like a job for >Phunami</a>. It's a PHP script with a single purpose: caching pages when getting slashdotted. I wrote it as a proof of concept for a section in a book I'm working on, but released it under LGPL as I figured it might be useful since this error shows up in many slashdottings.

The naming of Open Source projects is in a sorry state. So many projects choose names like this. I recently compiled a list of things to think about when naming a project. People are free to add their own to the list:

HOWTO: Name Your Project

I turned this into a PHP script for those too lazy to do it "longhand"here.

Here are the beginnings of such a HOWTO

If the name you're thinking of is directly pulled from a scifi or fantasy source, don't bother. These sources are WAY overrepresented as naming sources in software. Not only are your chances of coming up with something original pretty small, most of the names of characters and places in scifi are trademarked and you run the risk of being sued.

If the name you're thinking of comes straight from Greek, Roman or Norse mythology, try again. We've got more than enough mail related software called variations of "Mercury".

Run your proposed name through Google. The fewer results you get the better. If you get down to no results, you're there.

Don't try to get a unique name by just slightly misspelling something. Calling your new Windows filesystem program Phat32 is just going to end up with users getting frustrated looking at the results of "fat32" in a search engine.

If your name couldn't be said on TV in the 50s or 60s, you're probably on the wrong track. This is particularly true if you would like anyone to use your product in a work environment. No one is going to recommend a product to their co-workers if they can get sued for sexual harassment just for uttering its name.

If your product name can't be pronounced at all, you'll get no word of mouth benefit at all. Similarly, if no one knows how to pronounce it, they will not be very likely to try to say it out loud to ask questions about it, etc. How do YOU say MySQL? PostgreSQL? GNU? Almost all spoken languages on Earth are based on consonant/vowel syllables of some sort. Alternating between consonants and vowels is a pretty good way to ensure that someone can pronounce it.

The shorter the better.

See if the .com domain is available. If it's not, it's a pretty good indicator that someone has already thought of it and is using it or closer to using it than you are. Do this even if you don't intend to use the domain.

Don't build inherent limitations on your product into the name. Calling your product LinProduct or WinProduct precludes you from ever releasing any sort of cross-platform edition.

Don't use your own name for open source products. If the project lives on beyond your involvement, the project will either have to be renames or your name may be used in ways you didn't intend.

I'll put this up at phpgeek.com to build it up more.

Exactly. I am 6'4" and a slowly declining 255. I just bought a body fat analyzer to track that more closely and my LEAN mass is 185 pounds. 10% body fat would put me at 205.

My diet ideas are online at: http://www.phpgeek.com/articles.php?content_id=11

Yeah, I'm the same way with tweaking the configuration. I needed to get php+apache+mysql running on a win2k laptop so I needed something fast. My normal platforms are freebsd & linux so I don't have any tips on the build/config problem you were having...

I did remember the distrib I was thinking of - PHP Triad. It was pretty up to date when I downloaded it. I tried to find out what is in the 2.11 release but I gave up after a couple seconds. I'd just download it and take a look or check out the other replies in this thread.

Good luck.

I wondered if you'd pop up in this discussion. :)

No doubt =)

Care to post a few lines about your plans to use XWT to enhance PHPTriad?

I've been hedging my bets for a while on Sourceforge. I have a fairly popular project (over 1 million downloads) hosted there. This week I've averaged something like 5000 downloads/day at 10+MB each (which is why I have it on SF rather than on a server I pay for). I've been questioning how long this can last. There's no way SF can get enough revenue from my project to cover that kind of bandwidth usage. So, I wrote a simple PHP-based distributed mirror system (100% Buzzword Compliant(TM)) that lets people handle very small portions of the download traffic with daily bandwidth limits. I'm hoping to start shifting some of the burden off SF so that it isn't a single point of failure in distribution. Eventually the gravy train of massive free bandwidth is going to end.

Here are just a few of the tools that are considered traditionally in UNIX/Linux/BSD territory that are available for Win32. In all actuality, there's enough out there to get as much of Linux running on Win32 as Win32 running under WINE.
XFree86: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/
KDE: http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/
GTK/PHP/Libglade: http://gtk.php.net/download.php

Apache: http://www.apache.org
PHP: http://www.php.net
PHPTriad: http://www.phpgeek.com
Perl: http://www.activestate.com
Ruby: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/ ruby-install.html
Python: http://www.python.org/download/download_windows.ht ml
TCL/TK: http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/tclwin.htm

MySQL: http://www.mysql.com
MySQL ODBC: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/api-myodbc.html
PostgreSQL: Included in cygwin (only works on NT)

ATT's U/WIN* Unix for Windows: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
Cygwin: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
DJGPP: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
Native UNIX command-line binaries: http://www.wzw.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/win32/UnxUti ls.html

vi: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tmgil/vi.html
Emacs: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs .html
OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org

Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org
GIMP: http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/

List of GNU software for Windows: http://www.gnusoftware.com/
And so on . . .

There's a list over at DMOZ.org of a lot of this.

I've discovered this is an excellent way of wasting large amounts of time - reasonably correct syntax/semantics in English and strict correctness in PHP makes for more of a challenge than most menial PHP tasks. I should be writing C++ code for my finals... grr...

For inspiration, you should go here.
http://www.phpgeek.com/print.php?=PHPE9568F36-D428 -11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42
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I'm the author of PHPTriad and would like to point out that I've got a testing version of PHPTriad 2.0 available which I consider much more stable and complete than the version that download.com is pointing to. It's linked from a news story on www.phpgeek.com.

LetterJ
Head Geek

Nothing like screwing up the link to your own product. PHPTriad.

LetterJ

On installation: Even on Windows, it's gotten pretty easy. I wrote PHPTriad which installs PHP/Apache/MySQL in 5 min or less. Over 40000 downloads since August.

LetterJ

From personal experience I would put ColdFusion and PHP tied for the top slot. CF is cleaner and easier for building small apps but PHP has MUCH better support and is better for medium size apps. Not to mention the easiest to learn. ASP sucks. Really there is no such thing as ASP since its really a hodgepodge of VBScript, JScript and HTML. With Microsoft's .NET it gets even worse with 16+ languages available. PHP is simple, has decent string handling and excellent online support. PHP+Apache+MySQL is a killer combo. Want an easy install? Check out PHPTriad for Windows. Chances are than any question you could come up with has been asked and answered in one os the the support groups.