During a recent project I needed a script to retrieve some real-time data from a Twitter account and display the results on the homepage. After a quick search I came across a helpful PHP script by Joost de Valk. Much of the code below is based on his original script, so all credit to him.
Author Archives: Matthew
Inserting an exported MySQL dump via Command Line
July 28, 2009 – 12:43 pm
If you are a developer, no doubt you have a local development environment in which you build your website projects, testing every function, every change to make sure that once it’s ready to go live, you can upload the files and in preparation for launch. Once you get a few projects under your belt, and [...]
Cron job for phpList on 1and1
April 9, 2009 – 2:10 pm
I have seen quite a few posts about this topic floating around the internet during my search for a solution, many of them did not apply to my situation or failed to be clear and concise so I thought I would have a bash at documenting the necessary steps in setting up a cron job [...]
Room to Grow
March 31, 2009 – 2:08 pm
Art of Simplicity has recently acquired a VPS running Linux through 1and1. Not all of the domains hosted with us have been moved but plans are being made to have all moved within the next two months.
Time Delay Content by File Access Time
March 31, 2009 – 1:57 pm
I was working on a mini-script to display the results of a database and then log the results into a log file. One of the problems with the logging script was that every time the page was displayed, it would pull the results from the database and log the results.
Switching to PHP5 on 1and1 Linux Hosting
February 8, 2009 – 1:55 am
I recently upgraded a client to a 1and1 Linux Business Pro hosting package and so far I have found no major obstacles. The previous environment was a dedicated Windows 2003 server in which there was free reign to modify any of the core files, including the PHP installation and any other similar files.
Simple Joomla! SEF fix v2
February 6, 2009 – 11:44 pm
A few days ago I made a post relating to an issue I came across with Joomla! during a move from running it in basic SEF mode, which utilises the aliases given when creating categories and articles in the Joomla administration/back-end, to the full/advanced SEF mode which utilises both the aliases and Apache’s mod_rewrite to [...]
Joomla! SEF/SEO and URL 404 Fix
February 4, 2009 – 6:56 pm
I recently moved a clients distribution of Joomla! from a Windows 2003 enivornment running IIS6, a Microsoft Web Server. As some of you may know IIS and Joomla! do not play nice together, in particular all the SEF (Search Engine Friendly) and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) settings do not work out of the box as [...]
Display Opera Wand Passwords
December 27, 2008 – 2:49 pm
At the moment my browser of choice is Opera, a suprise for the hordes of those website designer/Firefox lovers out there I’m sure. My reasons are primarly for the interface, the clever speed-dial and the fact that it doesnt have the same memory hogging problems of the resource hungry Firefox. Granted that Opera, especially in [...]
Using @import in CSS
December 21, 2008 – 10:35 pm
A helpful little article I discovered over at About.com, titled Using @import in Cascading Style Sheets, by Jennifer Kyrnin, describes how to import external CSS rules from within another CSS document. It seems to be a great way to manage multiple CSS documents and thereby encourage the seperation of CSS rules to aide maintenance and [...]