function open_external_url
Changed the curl part, so now there is a connection timeout, in case a website is not responding
multilanguage support
xinu appears in the language from the browser, getting the language with $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']. It shows only the relevant pages for this language, so I changed the general.js and took out the inizialisation of the boxes to another javascript file
German translation
added
English translation
Improved English translation
Domain Age
Asking www.webconfs.com and www.alexa.com and showing the oldest result. Sometimes on of the results is empty and they are different. But it is not really showing the real domain age.
DMOZ
only searching for the short domainname without www.
Google Search / Google Image Search / Google Backlinks
Depending on language searching on the country page of google .es, .de or .com.
XHTML-Validator
first asking validator.w3.org, sometimes the site is busy, so there is no response, then asking www.validome.org. If there is no response from both of them show error
Digg
Now access via digg-API. It's a lot more faster and better.
Yigg
Added Yigg, another german digg-clone. Access via yigg-API.
alltagz
Added alltagz, another german social bookmarking page. Access via alltagz-API.
Links
Some of the error-images had hardcoded links. So I took out all hardcoded links to www.viciao2k3.net. Now you can change your own domain in a config-file.
Validation
The page is now XHTML 1.0 and CSS valid
Mister Wong
Depending on language searching on the country page of mister wong .es, .de or .com.
Screenshot
Added an alt-text to the image
Technorati
Changed Technorati Ranking, so that only the Rank appears. Changed Technorati Backlinks, so that it shows links and blogs. Both data fetching with Technorati API.
Author
changed to SimpleXML access, a lot faster
API-Access
Every access to any API where the result is a XML-file changed from preg_match to SimpleXML. That's a lot faster
HotBot / Ask
Taken out, because it is not showing correct backlink results