I’ve started writing some PHP 5.x scripts for the CLI (Command Line Interface) to run as server background processes / daemon on an Ubuntu server.
However, I needed to run some tests on my local development environment, a Windows XP machine running PHP v5.2.14 and I’ve been receiving warning messages saying that I’m missing a few important DLLS. Read More
The All-in-One SEO pack made by Semper Fi Web Design is a WordPress plugin that is used by innumerable blogs and websites all over the Internet.
It’s popular because it promises that strange SEO voodoo Read More
If you’ve ever had to move a WordPress website from one folder to another or one server to another or from a development environment to a production/live environment – whichever scenario you’ve probably had the trouble of ensuring the URLs survive the transition.
Normally, you can handle this in one of two ways. Read More
For a while now I’ve been trying to find a conveninent way to keep my WordPress blog plugins, themes and platform up-to-date with the steady stream of patches and fixes that keep being rolled out. Read More
This blog spent some time lost in cyber space as I upgraded the version of Ubuntu running on my server.
It’s taken me some time to migrate everything, posts, comments and setup etc.
More thoughts and posts will probably appear in due course.
Just a quick snippet that I wanted to keep in case I ever need it. And also because I’ve not posted an update here in quite some time.
I simply needed a way to pass a date time value from the client-side to the database and needed formatted in such a way that it could be used within a MySQL query. Read More
Today we stumpled accross a strange bug in WordPress v3.1, which at the time (of typing) is they the most recent version of WordPress.
The problem was that we had a never ending redirect loop on the homepage after upgrading from WordPress 3.0 to 3.1. Read More
This blog post deals with setting up an Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) server to allow virtual FTP user accounts which authenticate against credentials stored in a MySQL database. It does this Read More
If you are trying to enable cURL on Windows XP (running Apache or not) or you get an error message something to the effect of Call to undefined function: curl_init(), you may have come across a problem where you can’t enable the cURL extension despite the fact: Read More
I created a reCAPTCHA class for your next PHP project. To help prevent your forms or e-mail addresses from being abused by spammers.
It’s based on the standard PHP reCAPTCHA library which was looking a bit ugly, so I wrapped it all up in a neat, easy to implement and deploy class.
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