Archive for March, 2010

my first plugin-simplecart

March 26th, 2010

So, here it is. The tutorial I wrote a couple of weeks ago on putting Mal’s into WordPress with some functions is now a plugin. This is totally my first plugin – I’ve never written one before. I fully expect to be lambasted with “this sucks!” and…stuff like that. I really think you should read [...]

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Easy PHP Photo Gallery

March 26th, 2010

There are a lot of PHP photo gallery scripts out there. I know; because I went looking for one some time ago, and found myself barraged with Javascript, AJAX, and complicated installations. I didn’t want any of those things, so in the end I just wrote one for myself. It’s not a complicated script, and [...]

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phpinfo() file

March 26th, 2010

The phpinfo file outputs a large amount of information about the current state of PHP. This includes information about PHP compilation options and extensions, the PHP version, server information and environment (if compiled as a module), the PHP environment, OS version information, paths, master and local values of configuration options, HTTP headers, and the PHP [...]

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12 WordPress Plugins to Display and Highlight Code within your Blog

March 21st, 2010

Are you looking for method to display code in your site? If you have ever tried to display code within a post in your wordpress blog website you will know all about the problems this can cause. That is why there are some amazing developers who create plugins to make that solve this niggly issue. [...]

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Introduction to PHP-Fusion

March 19th, 2010

PHP Fusion a light-weight open-source content management system (CMS). PHP-Fusion is written in PHP and MySQL and includes a simple, comprehensive adminstration system. The most common features you would expect to see in many other CMS packages are included in PHP-Fusion. PHP-Fusion offers users the opportunity to expand the standard packages with so-called “infusions”. These [...]

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Cute News

March 19th, 2010

Cute News is a powerful news management system that uses flat files. Very easy to use and integrate into existing website. You’ll need less than 3 minutes to get it working on your server. Features: powerful comments system, WYSIWYG, avatars, own smilies, search function, flood protection, easy to manage multy-templates, time adjustment, backup function, IP [...]

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PHP: explode()

March 19th, 2010

Explode() is designed to split a given string in to pieces at a defined point (another string). PHP Explode() Prototype array explode ( string separator, string string [, int limit] ) Array: This array will contain each piece of the string after it has been split. Separator: Whenever this string is encountered in the target [...]

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php – string explode

March 19th, 2010

The PHP function explode lets you take a string and blow it up into smaller pieces. For example, if you had a sentence you could ask explode to use the sentence’s spaces ” ” as dynamite and it would blow up the sentence into separate words, which would be stored in an array. The sentence “Hello, I would [...]

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5 meta-skills for the PHP developer

March 12th, 2010

With a year like 2009 behind us, it’s inevitable that a curiously large number of PHP developers are currently in a state some like to describe as “funemployment.” It’s unfortunate, in a way, that so many in the community are currently looking for jobs—although it’s interesting to see that a large number of the folks [...]

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Zend Framework 2.0 Taking Shape

March 12th, 2010

There’s been lots of buzz about Zend Framework 2.0 recently, and for good reason: the feature list is truly kick-ass. With dozens of proposed changes, the second iteration of the web’s most popular framework is looking to be considerably better, more efficient and easier to use than the first, while still offering the functionality that [...]

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