Another post from the archives: I am running a WAMP development environment at home and at work. I am always looking for new ways to fine-tune my set-up. Here is one… TheRead More…
I have only recently begun working with PHP CLI scripts. Executing PHP scripts from the command line is fairly easy and you require no extra knowledge to create a basic script. AsRead More…
Another post from the archives After 2009 rolled in and all our sites failed to follow suite because “someone” hard-coded the years – but only up to 2008 – I quickly hadRead More…
It is recommended that you do not include database connection details in your scripts, so where exactly do you store them? Luckily, PHP has the handy function parse_ini_file() specifically for this task.Read More…
So I started out with the Getting Started for PHP on the Heroku site in my efforts to get into the cloud. The step-by-step guide on the Heroku site is fairly straightRead More…
I have played with various WordPress plugins for code syntax highlighting, but recently helped answer a query with regards syntax highlighting in other projects using Google Code Prettify. If you store your codeRead More…
Whilst fiddling around with QR Codes, I came across this Bar-code generator for PHP. Minimum requirements: PHP 5 GD2 Extension Here is my code for a basic implementation (adapted from the manualRead More…
Hoo boy we have to do this all the time and a quick Google tells me everyone has their favorite little tricks. Some even work. Here are the results of an exerciseRead More…
This was a quick hack to upload a PDF to Clearer Conscience. This script was a quick hack to allow a PDF to be uploaded to replace an outdated one on ClearerRead More…
This was another question in a skills evaluation test Write a regular expression for the following code that will trim off the extension from a filename: $ext = preg_replace(‘/xxxxx/’, ’’, $filename); MyRead More…