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PHP Progress Bar
An interesting idea was posted to eVolt’s TheList in the form of a tip: using PHP’s flushing buffer to create a progress bar for large PHP applications. Juha Suni, the author of the tip, provided the...
View ArticleBeing a PHP Lumberjack
Being a PHP Lumberjack is a great article on the importance of logging within PHP. While I already use some of the methods shown in the article, I learned a lot, and I plan to implement the ideas in my...
View ArticleSimple Templating
Simple Templating from mezzoblue provides a straightforward and solid templating system. I’ve typically followed the same type of practice on my sites, though Dave Shea’s practice of setting the body...
View ArticleJeffCroft.com: Getting favicons for inclusion in pages?
JeffCroft.com: Getting favicons for inclusion in pages? This may provide a better method than the one I have implemented on this site.
View ArticlePHP Filters
PHP Filters – “A collection of easy to include PHP functions that sanitize user inputs.”
View ArticleSwat
Swatt “is an open-source web application toolkit built with PHP5. It is primarily developed and maintained by silverorange, but participation and contributions are welcome.” This is a note for the...
View ArticlePHP CSS Dynamic Text Replacement (P C DTR)
PHP CSS Dynamic Text Replacement (P C DTR) – CSS Help Pile – artypapers.com
View ArticleDbVisualizer – Development Tools
DbVisualizer “is a feature rich, intuitive and cross-platform database tool for developers and DBAs, providing a single powerful interface for a variety of databases. DbVisualizer supports simultaneous...
View ArticleMmmm Code Snippets
Code Snippets is an online resource, providing a central user-writable repository for chunks of reusable code. A stroll through the language-agnostic site provides a plethora of tasty bits and bytes...
View ArticleactiveCollab
activeCollab is a “web based, open source collaboration and project management tool” that aims to clone the functionality of BaseCamp, but allows the developer to run it on their own servers. I’ve...
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Dynamic CSS A.K.A. CSS Variables
Cascading Style Sheets are an amazing tool, having transformed Web Design as an industry and the Web as a communications medium. But in all of its glory (and it is glorious), CSS has some flaws. The...
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Style Evolution – Dynamic CSS Part 2
Please note that this assumes you have read Part One of the series. Also, I have taken to calling this Evolved CSS, as the word “dynamic” is a bit too close to the old days of DHTML (Dynamic HTML) for...
View ArticleQuick Note to My Future Self: PHP & Memory
When WordPress or another Web app starts throwing fits and kicking out fatal errors due to memory, make sure the local php.ini (same dir as the scripts) is allocating enough RAM. 8Mb is not nearly...
View ArticleCake on OS X with Headdress
As I’ve been testing CakePHP I’ve run into an odd issue on my local OS X development environment. I couldn’t get the system configured to properly render the site I was building. It didn’t even show...
View ArticleFixing the WordPress Theme Reset Problem
As I posted in the WordPress forums I’ve run into an odd problem – WordPress occasionally resets my theme to the default version, which is annoying to say the least. After a lot of digging, I learned...
View ArticleMacGDBp: A Remote PHP Debugger for OS X
Blue Static has released MacGDBp, “a native Cocoa application that allows Web developers to debug their PHP applications.” The tool utilizes the Xdebug PHP extension to connect to the running PHP app...
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