Joomla security article
This just appeared in the Joomla Community Magazine: 777 The Number of the Beast by Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos It’s an extremely helpful article explaining security issues when installing and working with Joomla.
Mon, January 10 2011 » Apache, Joomla, PHP, Security » No Comments
New DJA website
London-based website development company DJA has launched their 2011 website. Offerings include WordPress and Joomla website development. Check it out at www.djaonline.co.uk
Mon, January 10 2011 » Joomla, PHP, Promotion, Web developing, Wordpress » No Comments
WordPress white screen
I just spent two hours trying to get a new WordPress installation working on a test server. After reinstalling “everything” I checked back with tail -f /var/log/php_error.log and started to see some familiar messages about missing includes files: PHP Fatal error: require() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required Relating to /wp-includes/load.php’ and wp_settings To cut a [...]
Tue, September 7 2010 » PHP, Wordpress » No Comments
Hughes Design’s new web and mobile sites
I’ve been working with Hughes Design developing their new website and it’s finally live at www.hughes-design.co.uk The website has plenty of information on capabilities, the team and previous clients and work. As well as graphic design, branding and website building, Hughes Design are now providing mobile website development. I’m now part of the iPhone Development [...]
Tue, March 23 2010 » ajax / javascript, PHP, Web developing » No Comments
New website, small contribution made
A new website for Acupuncture and Shiatsu practitioner Fiona Hurlock has just gone live at www.fionahurlock.com. Built and designed by Hughes Design, I was asked to assist with some menus on the treatment page. The menus were quickly implemented using scriptaculous and css so that the menu element changed colour on hover and the arrow [...]
Thu, June 25 2009 » ajax / javascript, PHP, Web developing » No Comments
php form handling multiple select entries
The problem: You need to use the result of a multiple select form element in your php script. Handling a $_POST request gives only one entry from the form element, not all those selected. The solution: Use array name in form element name ie multiselect becomes multiselect[] or <select name=”multipleselect[]“> <option value=”0″>0</option> <option value=”1″>1</option> <option [...]
Thu, August 14 2008 » PHP, Web developing » No Comments
Get first record in mysql recordset
This solved a problem the other day whereby mysql_fetch_array had already been used after a query had been run. The first record in the set didn’t appear. Doing the same query in Webmin produced the first record. Using mysql_data_seek(-result-,-recordnumber-) will move the pointer to the correct first record. This could be useful for looping through [...]
Fri, January 11 2008 » PHP » No Comments
PHP Namespaces
In the new release of PHP (5.3) there’s now namespaces support. Maik Beckmann explains some more in his blog entry Hooray for namespaces in PHP 5.3 See also PHP Namespaces (Part 1: Basic usage & gotchas)
Wed, October 17 2007 » PHP » No Comments
PHP nav excitement
Very exciting and very useful. One file, umpteen possibilities. Have an include file show which page you’re on by looking at the URI in your top bar. $myAdd = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; and for example: if (strstr($myAdd, “about.php”)) { I am illuminated } else { rollover me now } This is pretty much all you need. All [...]
Wed, May 11 2005 » PHP » No Comments
PHP Thumbnails
When uploading images and then listing them dynamically, it is possible to create thumbnails on the fly in PHP. This appears at Zend’s Autogallery though doing a Google PHP thumbnail search there are a number of methods.
Wed, June 16 2004 » PHP » No Comments
